Vulcan salute emoji meaning

The vulcan salute emoji is a yellow, hand-shaped symbol with a raised arm and the fingers forming a V-shaped gesture, resembling the hand sign used by the character Spock in the "Star Trek" television series. It is often used to represent a greeting or farewell among fans of the show, or to show admiration or respect for the character and the series. It can also be used more generally as a way to express goodwill or to signal that something is cool or awesome.

The vulcan salute emoji was approved in Unicode 7.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/12275