🤘Sign of the Horns Emoji
Generally, it just means “awesome,” “cool,” or “you got it. ” People use it to express enthusiasm or agreement in a text.
The 🤘 emoji, also known as the “horns” gesture, is a hand sign where you make a circle with your hand and point your thumb and index finger together.
- Unicode
- U+1F918
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :the_horns:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤘 Sign of the Horns emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
Sign of the Horns emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the sign of the horns has been drawn in 3 ways.
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.
Sign of the Horns emoji skin tones
🤘 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Sign of the Horns 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 :the_horns:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F918.
How to type the 🤘 Sign of the Horns emoji
No picker to hand? The sign of the horns can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Sign of the Horns emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Sign of the Horns emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sign of the horns 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
Rock-and-roll “horns” in the US, but the same hand shape is a serious insult about infidelity in parts of Southern Europe.
Devil-horns gesture for rock, metal, or general excitement — completely casual.
Read as calling someone a “cuckold” — a pointed and genuinely insulting gesture.
“Hook ’em Horns” — team pride, unrelated to music or insult.
Before you send it: Great for music or sports enthusiasm in English-speaking chats; avoid it aimed at someone in Southern Europe.
What 🤘 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F918, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🤘 vs 🤚 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Sign of the Horns
Code: U+1F918 · added 2015
Shortcode: :the_horns:
Generally, it just means “awesome,” “cool,” or “you got it.
Unicode name: Raised Back of Hand
Code: U+1F91A · added 2016
Shortcode: :raised_back_of_hand:
Generally, 🤚 means “stop” or “wait.
Where the 🤘 Sign of the Horns emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the sign of the horns to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F918 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.
Sign of the Horns was approved as U+1F918 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.