🤟Love-you Gesture Emoji
It generally means “I love you. ” People use it to show affection in texts, just like saying the words.
The 🤟 emoji shows three fingers forming a heart shape with the other hand giving a thumbs up.
- Unicode
- U+1F91F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :i_love_you_hand_sign:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤟 Love-you Gesture emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
Love-you Gesture emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the love-you gesture as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Love-you Gesture emoji skin tones
🤟 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Love-you Gesture emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :i_love_you_hand_sign:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F91F.
How to type the 🤟 Love-you Gesture emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F91F when there is no key at all.
Love-you Gesture emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Love-you Gesture emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around love-you gesture for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🤟, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🤟 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the love-you gesture and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🤟 means in other countries
Reads as the ASL sign for “I love you” across most of the internet, warm rather than aggressive.
An affectionate sign-off between friends and family, straightforward and positive.
Can be mistaken at a glance for the “horns” gesture, though the extended thumb sets it apart.
Before you send it: Safe for affection with people you’re close to; a plain heart may read clearer in less personal chats.
What 🤟 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F91F, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🤟 vs 🧤 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Love-you Gesture
Code: U+1F91F · added 2017
Shortcode: :i_love_you_hand_sign:
It generally means “I love you.
Unicode name: Gloves
Code: U+1F9E4 · added 2017
Shortcode: :gloves:
Generally, the 🧤 emoji just means gloves.
Where the 🤟 Love-you Gesture emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the love-you gesture to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F91F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Love-you Gesture was approved as U+1F91F and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🤟 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.