🤞 Crossed Fingers

The 🤞 Crossed Fingers emoji belongs to the partial finger gestures, filed by Unicode under People & Body. People send it when the subject is cross, crossed, finger and fingers. Further official keywords are hand and luck.

🤞 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. It joined the standard with Emoji 3.0 in 2016, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F91E. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• A single 🤞 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about cross, crossed, finger and fingers.
• Often seen near ✌️ Victory Hand, 🤞🏻 Crossed Fingers: Light Skin Tone and ✌🏻 Victory Hand: Light Skin Tone.

Crossed fingers mean luck and hope across the West, most likely deriving from the Christian sign of the cross. Alongside that runs the idea, common in several countries, that fingers crossed behind the back excuse a lie.

In Vietnam, by contrast, the gesture is plainly obscene: the shape is read as a depiction of female genitals. Worth knowing before you travel.

• 🤞🤏 – Crossed Fingers and Pinching Hand
• 🤞✌️ – Crossed Fingers with Victory Hand
• 🤞🤟 – Crossed Fingers plus Love-You Gesture
• 🤞🤘 – Crossed Fingers and Sign of the Horns
• 🤞🫰 – Crossed Fingers with Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
• 🤞🤌 – Crossed Fingers plus Pinched Fingers

Easy to mix up with ✌️ Victory Hand, 🤞🏻 Crossed Fingers: Light Skin Tone or ✌🏻 Victory Hand: Light Skin Tone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.