🫰Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed Emoji
Generally, it means “I love you” or “I like you” in a lighthearted way. It’s a simple, visual expression of positive feelings.
The 🫰 emoji shows your index and thumb crossed.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF0
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :hand_with_index_finger_and_thumb_crossed:
- Skin tones
- Yes
⚠️ Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 11.
People also look for it as snap emoji, thumb emoji, thumb index finger emoji, finger thumb emoji.
Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAF0. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji skin tones
🫰 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hand_with_index_finger_and_thumb_crossed:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1FAF0.
How to type the 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji
No picker to hand? The hand with index finger and thumb crossed can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed 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
Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hand with index finger and thumb crossed 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 hand with index finger and thumb crossed and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🫰 means in other countries
Started as Korea’s “finger heart” for affection, and now doubles online as a playful money gesture.
A mini heart gesture meaning “I love you” or thanks, aimed at fans or friends.
Also used jokingly to mimic holding cash — “that’s expensive” or “money.”
Before you send it: Works well as an affectionate or playful sign-off; the rest of the message makes the meaning clear.
What 🫰 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the hand with index finger and thumb crossed lands changes how it is taken.
🫰 vs 👌 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Code: U+1FAF0 · added 2021
Shortcode: :hand_with_index_finger_and_thumb_crossed:
Generally, it means “I love you” or “I like you” in a lighthearted way.
Unicode name: Ok Hand
Code: U+1F44C · added 2010
Shortcode: :ok_hand:
Generally, 👌 means “okay” or “good.
Where the 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji came from
It arrived with the 14.0 release of the standard, which dates the hand with index finger and thumb crossed to 2021.
Same character every time — U+1FAF0 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.
Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed was approved as U+1FAF0 and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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.