Crossed fingers: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand showing the index and middle fingers crossed over one another, rendered with a medium-dark skin tone. The gesture is a universal sign of wishing for good luck or hoping for a favorable outcome.

Usage Context

People send this when they are rooting for someone, hoping for a specific result, or jokingly crossing their fingers to negate a promise or statement they just made. It is frequently used alongside emojis like 🍀 to emphasize luck or 🙏 when expressing hope.

History

The crossed fingers gesture has roots in early Christian tradition as a way to ward off evil, but it evolved into a common secular expression of hope. The emoji version arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, following the expansion of skin tone modifiers that allow for more personalized representation in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

🤞🏾

Unicode

U+1F91E U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91e_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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