Love-you gesture: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A hand gesture featuring an extended thumb, index finger, and pinky, rendered with a medium skin tone. This specific hand shape is the American Sign Language sign for 'I love you,' formed by combining the handshapes for the letters I, L, and Y.
Usage Context
Used to express affection, gratitude, or solidarity in digital messages. While it looks similar to the 'rock on' hand sign or the heavy metal 'devil horns' 🤘, the thumb extension is the key identifier for its intended meaning of love. People often use it as a shorthand for 'I love you' at the end of texts or social media posts.
History
This gesture was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. It emerged as a widely recognized hand sign in the 20th-century American Deaf community before becoming a staple of internet slang and casual digital communication.
Details
Glyph
🤟🏽
Unicode
U+1F91F U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f91f_1f3fd:
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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