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.
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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