Heart Hands Emoji
Two hands forming a heart — affection, gratitude and appreciation aimed at someone.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Heart Hands emoji mean?
Two hands forming a heart — affection, gratitude and appreciation aimed at someone.
Sincere and affectionate without being romantic. It has become a common way to thank people warmly in public replies.
How to use 🫶 naturally
Thanking people warmly, showing support and signing off a fond message.
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 🫶
- 2021
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Heart Hands was first defined as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. A release whose additions were quickly adopted as reactions.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Two hands forming a heart, a gesture popularised by Korean pop culture and added in 2021. One of the few emoji tracing to a specific modern subculture.
- Today
How its use evolved
Thanking people warmly, showing support and signing off a fond message.
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.
Thank you all for today 🫶
You didn't have to do that 🫶
Best crowd we've had 🫶
When to use it
Using 🫶 clearly
Thanking people warmly, showing support and signing off a fond message. It lands as heart hands 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 heart hands emoji
What does 🫶 mean in a text message?
Two hands forming a heart — affection, gratitude and appreciation aimed at someone. Sincere and affectionate without being romantic. It has become a common way to thank people warmly in public replies.
Is 🫶 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are heart hands meaning, 🫶 meaning, heart hands emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
What does 🫶 mean from a girl or from a guy?
The same thing either way: Two hands forming a heart — affection, gratitude and appreciation aimed at someone. The sender's gender does not change what the character means. What does change it is how well you know each other, what the rest of the message says, and whether either of you is being ironic.
Why does 🫶 look different on another device?
U+1FAF6 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 heart hands 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 heart hands emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🫶 as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. 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+1FAF6 | 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 | \1FAF6 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAF6} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%B6 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAF6
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- heart hands meaning🫶 meaningheart hands emoji
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