Hand with index finger and thumb crossed: light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture featuring the thumb and index finger crossed to form a small loop. The skin tone is depicted as fair or light, representing a common human hand signal.

Usage Context

This gesture gained widespread popularity as a 'finger heart' in South Korean pop culture to express love or affection. In Western contexts, it is frequently used to signal money, payment, or the act of snapping fingers. It is often used alongside ❤️ or 💸 to clarify whether the user is talking about romantic feelings or financial transactions.

History

While the 'finger heart' has been a staple of K-pop fandom for years, it only gained official inclusion in Unicode 14.0 in 2021. The gesture was added to address the massive surge in social media usage regarding Korean entertainment and modern slang, which bridged the gap between its traditional 'money' meaning and its modern 'love' interpretation.

Details

Glyph

🫰🏻

Unicode

U+1FAF0 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf0_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF0;&#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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