🖖Vulcan Salute Emoji
Generally, it means “Live Long and Prosper,” which is the Vulcan motto. It’s a way to say you’re acknowledging someone or wishing them well.
The 🖖 emoji represents the Vulcan salute from Star Trek.
- Unicode
- U+1F596
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :spock-hand:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🖖 Vulcan Salute emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
People also look for it as salute emoji, vulcan emoji.
Vulcan Salute emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the vulcan salute as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Vulcan Salute emoji skin tones
🖖 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Vulcan Salute emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :spock-hand:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F596.
How to type the 🖖 Vulcan Salute emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Vulcan Salute emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the vulcan salute as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Vulcan Salute emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around vulcan salute for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🖖, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🖖 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🖖 means in other countries
Reads as a Star Trek reference — “live long and prosper” — recognized mainly by sci-fi fans worldwide.
An instant Star Trek nod, a friendly and slightly nerdy greeting.
Some readers just see an odd hand shape, without the reference registering.
Before you send it: Send it freely with anyone — worst case it just doesn’t land as a joke with non-fans.
What 🖖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🖖 Vulcan Salute emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the vulcan salute has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F596 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Vulcan Salute was approved as U+1F596 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🖖 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.