U+1F918 Sign of The Horns
U+1F918 was added to Unicode in version 8.0 (2015). It belongs to the block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F918 behaves as Emoji Base regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “sign of the horns” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: finger, hand, horns, rock-on, sign of the horns.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🤘︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The sign of the horns is a hand gesture with a variety of meanings and uses in various cultures. It is formed by extending the index and little fingers while holding the middle and ring fingers down with the thumb.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 129304 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F A4 98 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3E DD 18 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F9 18 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%A4%98 |
| HTML-Escape | 🤘 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🤘 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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| 8.0 (2015) | |
| SIGN OF THE HORNS | |
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| Supplementary Private Use Area-A | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Sign of The Horns | |
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| Sign of The Horns | |
| Any | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Sign of The Horns | |
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| Sign of The Horns | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Emoji Base | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Sign of The Horns | |
| U |