🫰🏻 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed: Light Skin Tone

The 🫰🏻 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed: Light Skin Tone emoji belongs to the partial finger gestures, filed by Unicode under People & Body. In practice it comes up around <3, crossed, expensive and finger. Unicode also files it under hand, heart, index and light skin tone, which shows how widely it is read.

🫰🏻 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. It joined the standard with Emoji 14.0 in 2021, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1FAF0 U+1F3FB.

• 🫰🏻 works as a one-character reply when <3 is the subject.
• Fits messages about <3, crossed, expensive and finger.
• Often seen near 🤞🏻 Crossed Fingers: Light Skin Tone, 🤟 Love-You Gesture and 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed.

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

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