Crossed fingers: light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand showing the index and middle fingers crossed in a classic gesture of hope or deception. This version features the light skin tone modifier applied to the hand.

Usage Context

Widely used to wish someone good luck before an event, or to jokingly signal that a promise is being broken—much like saying 'fingers crossed behind my back.' It is frequently sent alongside 🍀 to emphasize hoping for a positive outcome or a favorable result.

History

While the gesture has been a common physical sign for luck or white lies for centuries, it was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2016. The ability to modify skin tones arrived shortly after to better reflect the diversity of the people using these hand signals in everyday messaging.

Details

Glyph

🤞🏻

Unicode

U+1F91E U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91e_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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