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🫰Hand With Index Finger And Thumb Crossed Emoji
The hand with index finger and thumb crossed emoji 🫰 carries the codepoint U+1FAF0 and has been in the standard since Emoji 14.0 (2021). It belongs to People & Body → Hand Signs.
What 🫰 hand with index finger and thumb crossed means
Gestures that carry a lot of regional baggage. ✌️ and 🤞 are broadly understood; 🤌, added in 2020, is read almost everywhere as the Italian bunched-fingers gesture; 🫰, added in 2021, is the Korean finger heart popularized by K-pop. 👌 stays useful in most contexts but has been co-opted as a troll symbol, so it can land badly.
Unicode tags this one <3, crossed and expensive and files it under People & Body → Hand Signs.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FAF0 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🫰 | |
| HTML decimal | 🫰 | |
| CSS | \1FAF0 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAF0} | |
| Python | \U0001FAF0 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEF0 | |
| Rust | \u{1faf0} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAF0} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAF0} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AB%B0 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB B0 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEF0 | |
| Base64 | 8J+rsA== | |
| Decimal | 129776 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🫰 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🫰
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “hand with index finger and thumb crossed”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “<3”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1faf0and Enter. - HTML — paste
🫰.
How 🫰 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🫰Apple
- 🫰Segoe
- 🫰Noto
- 🫰System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🫰 hand with index finger and thumb crossed emoji mean?+
🫰 is the hand with index finger and thumb crossed emoji, tagged <3, crossed and expensive. Gestures that carry a lot of regional baggage. ✌️ and 🤞 are broadly understood; 🤌, added in 2020, is read almost everywhere as the Italian bunched-fingers gesture; 🫰, added in 2021, is the Korean finger heart popularized by K-pop. 👌 stays useful in most contexts but has been co-opted as a troll symbol, so it can land badly.
What is the Unicode code for 🫰?+
hand with index finger and thumb crossed is U+1FAF0. In HTML that is 🫰, in CSS \1FAF0, and in JavaScript \u{1FAF0}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🫰 emoji added?+
hand with index finger and thumb crossed got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Hand Signs in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫰 hand with index finger and thumb crossed.