✌️Victory Hand Emoji
Generally, the ✌️ emoji means you’re celebrating a win or victory. It's a simple way to express that you're feeling successful or happy about something.
The ✌️ emoji, also known as the victory hand, shows two fingers raised in a V-sign.
- Unicode
- U+270C U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :v:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the ✌️ Victory Hand emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as victory emoji.
Victory Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the victory hand 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.
Victory Hand emoji skin tones
✌️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Victory Hand 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 :v:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the victory hand, code point U+270C.
How to type the ✌️ Victory Hand emoji
No picker to hand? The victory hand can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Victory Hand 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
Victory Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around victory hand 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
A peace sign or photo pose almost everywhere, but the reversed version of this gesture is a serious insult in the UK.
The default pose for photos — cheerful, with no negative meaning at all.
Shorthand for “peace,” “victory,” or just a cheerful sign-off.
With the back of the hand facing out, the physical gesture is equivalent to the middle finger.
Before you send it: Safe as sent on a keyboard; just know the physical gesture has a rude version in the UK and Ireland.
What ✌️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+270C, 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: Victory Hand
Code: U+270C U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :v:
Generally, the ✌️ emoji means you’re celebrating a win or victory.
Unicode name: Ok Hand
Code: U+1F44C · added 2010
Shortcode: :ok_hand:
Generally, 👌 means “okay” or “good.
Where the ✌️ Victory Hand emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+270C U+FE0F 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
✌️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E694, KDDI au E5A6, SoftBank E011.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Victory Hand was approved as U+270C U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.