🤟 Love-You Gesture

🤟 Love-You Gesture is one of the partial finger gestures in Unicode's People & Body group. Typical contexts are fingers, gesture, hand and ily. The keyword list continues with love, love-you, three and you.

🤟 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. The character has been part of the standard since 2017 (Emoji 5.0). Its code point is U+1F91F. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• 🤟 works as a one-character reply when fingers is the subject.
• Fits messages about fingers, gesture, hand and ily.
• Often seen near 🤟🏻 Love-You Gesture: Light Skin Tone, 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed and 🫰🏻 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed: Light Skin Tone.

This is not a rock salute, however much it looks like one. It spells I love you in American Sign Language: thumb, index finger and little finger stand for the letters I, L and Y. The emoji arrived in 2017 with Unicode 10, explicitly at the request of the Deaf community. The only difference from 🤘 is the extended thumb – a small detail carrying a lot of meaning.

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

Easy to mix up with 🤟🏻 Love-You Gesture: Light Skin Tone, 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed or 🫰🏻 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed: 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.