V sign
Sign in to saveAlso known as Victory sign, VICTORY sign, VICTORY HAND, 2
hand gesture involving the index and middle fingers forming a "V" shape
Key facts
- In unicode
- U+270C ✌ VICTORY HAND
- Different from
- U+1F594 🖔 REVERSED VICTORY HAND
- See also
- U+262E ☮ PEACE SYMBOL , U+01F54A 🕊 DOVE OF PEACE
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- 362-victory-hand-2.svg
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- Unicode character
- ✌️
- Commons category
- V-sign
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Encyclopedic overview
The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill using the V sign. (Pictured in 1943) It is often interpreted as indicating the word "victory" which was widely used when the Allies won World War II.
The V sign is a hand gesture in which the index and middle fingers are raised and parted to make a V shape while the other fingers are clenched. It has various meanings, depending on the circumstances and how it is presented.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “V sign” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.