Crossed Fingers Emoji
Fingers crossed for luck — hoping something goes your way when you cannot influence it.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Crossed Fingers emoji mean?
Fingers crossed for luck — hoping something goes your way when you cannot influence it.
Hopeful and powerless in equal measure. It acknowledges that the outcome is no longer in your hands, which makes it supportive rather than encouraging.
How to use 🤞 naturally
Interviews, results, weather forecasts and anything now out of your hands.
Hand gestures can be direct and efficient, which makes them useful in quick replies. Their tone varies across cultures and age groups, so a short accompanying phrase can prevent ambiguity.
From standard to slang
The history of 🤞
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Crossed Fingers was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
The index and middle fingers crossed, a European folk gesture for luck that also functions as permission to lie. Added in 2016.
- Today
How its use evolved
Interviews, results, weather forecasts and anything now out of your hands.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🤞 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Interview at ten, wish me luck 🤞
Results tomorrow 🤞
Hoping the weather holds 🤞
When to use it
Using 🤞 clearly
Interviews, results, weather forecasts and anything now out of your hands. It lands as crossed fingers meaning or 🤞 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the crossed fingers emoji
What does 🤞 mean in a text message?
Fingers crossed for luck — hoping something goes your way when you cannot influence it. Hopeful and powerless in equal measure. It acknowledges that the outcome is no longer in your hands, which makes it supportive rather than encouraging.
Is 🤞 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are crossed fingers meaning, 🤞 meaning, fingers crossed emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤞 look different on another device?
U+1F91E identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the crossed fingers emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🤞 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the crossed fingers emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤞 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🤞 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F91E | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🤞 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤞 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F91E | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F91E} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%9E | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F91E
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- crossed fingers meaning🤞 meaningfingers crossed emoji
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