🤘 Sign of the Horns

Unicode lists 🤘 Sign of the Horns among the partial finger gestures in the People & Body group. In practice it comes up around finger, hand, horns and rock-on. Further official keywords are sign.

🤘 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. The character has been part of the standard since 2015 (Emoji 1.0). Its code point is U+1F918. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• 🤘 on its own already flags the topic: finger.
• Fits messages about finger, hand, horns and rock-on.
• Often seen near 🤘🏻 Sign of the Horns: Light Skin Tone, 🤟 Love-You Gesture and 🤟🏻 Love-You Gesture: Light Skin Tone.

The mano cornuta is considerably older than heavy metal: around the Mediterranean it has warded off the evil eye since antiquity. Ronnie James Dio brought it into rock music in the 1970s – he had it from his Italian grandmother.

Care is needed in Italy, Spain and parts of Latin America, where the same hand also says that the other person’s spouse is unfaithful – a solid insult.

• 🤘✌️ – Sign of the Horns and Victory Hand
• 🤘🤙 – Sign of the Horns with Call Me Hand
• 🤘🤟 – Sign of the Horns plus Love-You Gesture
• 🤘🫰 – Sign of the Horns and Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
• 🤘🤞 – Sign of the Horns with Crossed Fingers

Easy to mix up with 🤘🏻 Sign of the Horns: Light Skin Tone, 🤟 Love-You Gesture or 🤟🏻 Love-You Gesture: Light Skin Tone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.