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

People

A hand gesture showing the thumb and index finger crossed together to form a small heart shape, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. This pose is often referred to as a finger heart.

Usage Context

Widely used to express affection, gratitude, or love in digital messages without needing to type out a full heart emoji like ❤️. Because the gesture also resembles the act of snapping fingers or rubbing fingertips together to indicate cash, it is frequently used in memes to joke about high prices, bills, or being broke.

History

This gesture gained massive popularity through South Korean pop culture, specifically K-pop, where artists used it to show love to their fans. It was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0 to reflect its widespread adoption across global social media.

Details

Glyph
🫰🏼
Unicode
U+1FAF0 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf0_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-partial
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
<3crossedexpensivefingerhandheartindexlovemoneysnapthumbfinger heartk-popcashgesture

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