Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed Emoji
Index finger and thumb crossed, the Korean finger heart emoji.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed emoji mean?
Index finger and thumb crossed, the Korean finger heart emoji.
Sweet and fandom-coded. It is a small, casual heart, lighter than 🫶.
How to use 🫰 naturally
K-pop fandom, affection and sending a small heart.
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, Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed 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
Added in 2021 after the finger heart spread from K-pop. The gesture can also mean money in some places, but in chat it almost always means a heart.
- Today
How its use evolved
K-pop fandom, affection and sending a small heart.
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.
Concert was amazing 🫰
Love you all 🫰
Best group ever 🫰
When to use it
Using 🫰 clearly
K-pop fandom, affection and sending a small heart. It lands as korean heart emoji or finger heart emoji 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 hand with index finger and thumb crossed emoji
What does 🫰 mean in a text message?
Index finger and thumb crossed, the Korean finger heart emoji. Sweet and fandom-coded. It is a small, casual heart, lighter than 🫶.
Is 🫰 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are korean heart emoji, finger heart emoji, 🫰 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🫰 look different on another device?
U+1FAF0 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 hand with index finger and thumb crossed 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 hand with index finger and thumb crossed 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+1FAF0 | 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 | \1FAF0 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAF0} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%B0 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAF0
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- korean heart emojifinger heart emoji🫰 meaning
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