🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed

🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed is one of the partial finger gestures in Unicode's People & Body group. People send it when the subject is <3, crossed, expensive and finger. The keyword list continues with hand, heart, index and love.

🫰 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. Added in 2021 with Emoji 14.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1FAF0. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• 🫰 on its own already flags the topic: <3.
• Fits messages about <3, crossed, expensive and finger.
• Often seen near 🤞🏻 Crossed Fingers: Light Skin Tone, 🫰🏻 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed: Light Skin Tone and 🤞 Crossed Fingers.

Thumb and index finger crossed – the finger heart comes from South Korea and spread worldwide through K-pop and Korean drama. It signals affection in the broadest sense: thanks to fans, warmth, a small “love you”. Compared with the full heart made with both arms, it is the casual, everyday version. Unicode adopted it in 2021, by which time the gesture was already global.

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

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