Crossed fingers: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A hand with the index and middle fingers crossed, modified with a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are typically layered, suggesting the common gesture used to signal a hope for good fortune or a wish.
Usage Context
This gesture is a universal sign for wishing for good luck or hoping for a favorable outcome. It is also frequently used in informal settings to suggest a promise or, conversely, to imply that a person is telling a lie or crossing their fingers behind their back to invalidate a statement. It is often sent alongside 🍀 or ✨ when someone is rooting for a positive result.
History
Crossed fingers have long been used in Western culture as a superstitious gesture to ward off bad luck. It was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0, following the push to add more hand gestures that reflect body language and common non-verbal communication.
Details
Glyph
🤞🏼
Unicode
U+1F91E U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f91e_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-partial
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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