Love-you gesture Emoji
People
A hand gesture featuring the thumb, index finger, and pinky finger extended upward while the middle and ring fingers remain curled against the palm. This hand shape mirrors the American Sign Language sign for 'I love you.'
Usage Context
Widely used in digital messaging to express affection, platonic love, or support without needing to type out a full sentence. It is frequently sent alongside ❤️ or 🥰 to emphasize warmth. While often used for romantic sentiment, it is also common at concerts or music festivals to signal excitement toward a performer.
History
Adopted into Unicode 10.0 in 2017, the sign combines the hand shapes for the letters I, L, and Y from American Sign Language. Its addition to the emoji set helped bridge the gap between deaf culture communication and mainstream internet slang.
Details
Glyph
🤟
Unicode
U+1F91F
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f91f:
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
Microsoft Fluent License
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