| Symbol Name | Vulcan Salute |
| Unicode Version | 1.0 |
| Unicode block |
| General category | Emoji (So) |
| LaTeX | LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX: literal grapheme cluster or \usepackage{emoji} (engine-dependent) |
| Spoken / screen reader name | Vulcan Salute |
Bytes update when you change skin tone — each tone adds a modifier code point after the base emoji.
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 96 96 |
| UTF-16 | D83D DD96 |
| UTF-32 | 0001F596 |
Each tone is an extra Unicode scalar after the base emoji — so HTML uses several &#…; entities in sequence, not a single code.
| Unicode | U+1F596 |
| CSS Code | \1F596 |
| Hex Code | 0x1F596 |
| HTML Code | 🖖 |
| Symbol | 🖖 |
| URL encode (UTF-8 percent) | %F0%9F%96%96 |
1span.pick::before {2 content: "\1F596";3}1<span>🖖</span>Vulcan Salute symbol's representation in different programming languages can be found in the table below:
| Language | Representation |
|---|---|
| JavaScript / TypeScript | String.fromCodePoint(0x1F596) |
| Python | chr(128406) |
| Rust | "\u{1F596}" |
| Go | string([]rune{128406}) |
| Ruby | "\u{1F596}" |
| Swift | "\u{1F596}" |
1\documentclass{article}2\usepackage{pifont}3LuaLaTeX/XeLaTeX: literal grapheme cluster or \usepackage{emoji} (engine-dependent)4\end{document}You can type the vulcan salute symbol on most modern devices with the help of following methods:
Win + . or mobile emoji keyboard; long-press base gesture for Fitzpatrick skin-tone stripes when available.
Edit → Emoji & Symbols, search "vulcan salute".
Emoji picker (IBus, GNOME Characters) or paste from this page.
Emoji keyboard → Hand & Gesture, or search "vulcan salute".
Emoji keyboard → Gestures; search "vulcan salute".