Victory Hand Emoji
Two raised fingers reading as peace, victory or a casual sign-off.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Victory Hand emoji mean?
Two raised fingers reading as peace, victory or a casual sign-off.
Relaxed and friendly. It carries both peace-sign and victory readings, and in photos it usually means neither in particular.
How to use ✌️ naturally
Photo poses, relaxed goodbyes and light celebration.
Hand gestures can be direct and efficient, which makes them useful in quick replies. Their tone varies across cultures and age groups, so a short accompanying phrase can prevent ambiguity.
From standard to slang
The history of ✌️
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Victory Hand was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Two fingers raised in a V. Churchill's wartime victory sign in the West and the standard photograph pose across East Asia, from two entirely separate traditions.
- Today
How its use evolved
Photo poses, relaxed goodbyes and light celebration.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of ✌️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Done for the week ✌️
Catch you Monday ✌️
Front row, obviously ✌️
When to use it
Using ✌️ clearly
Photo poses, relaxed goodbyes and light celebration. It lands as victory hand meaning or peace sign emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the victory hand emoji
What does ✌️ mean in a text message?
Two raised fingers reading as peace, victory or a casual sign-off. Relaxed and friendly. It carries both peace-sign and victory readings, and in photos it usually means neither in particular.
Is ✌️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are victory hand meaning, peace sign emoji, ✌️ meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ✌️ look different on another device?
U+270C U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the victory hand emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. ✌️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the victory hand emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records ✌️ as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
✌️ compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Victory Hand or Crossed Fingers?
🤞 hopes for a result still pending. ✌️ is relaxed and usually marks a goodbye or a photo pose.
Victory Hand or Call Me Hand?
🤙 means all good or get in touch. ✌️ means peace or victory, and neither is a request.
For developers
✌️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+270C U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | ✌️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | ✌️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \270C \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{270C}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%8C%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+270C U+FE0F
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- victory hand meaningpeace sign emoji✌️ meaning
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