🫶Heart Hands Emoji
Generally, 🫶 means “I care about you” or “sending you love. ” It's a simple way to show you’re thinking of someone in a positive way.
The 🫶 emoji is basically two hands forming a heart shape.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF6
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :heart_hands:
- Skin tones
- Yes
- Popularity
- #54 most used
⚠️ 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 🫶 Heart Hands emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Heart Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAF6. 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.
Heart Hands emoji skin tones
🫶 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Heart Hands emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :heart_hands:.
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+1FAF6.
How to type the 🫶 Heart Hands emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAF6 when there is no key at all.
Heart Hands 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
Heart Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around heart hands 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 heart hands and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🫶 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FAF6, 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: Heart Hands
Code: U+1FAF6 · added 2021
Shortcode: :heart_hands:
Generally, 🫶 means “I care about you” or “sending you love.
Unicode name: Clapping Hands
Code: U+1F44F · added 2010
Shortcode: :clap:
Generally, it means “well done!
Where the 🫶 Heart Hands emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAF6 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.
Heart Hands was approved as U+1FAF6 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.