Heart Hands Emoji

What does the Heart Hands emoji mean?

Represented by the character 🫶, the Heart Hands emoji is classified under People & Body. It captures the idea of heart hands in a single, cross-platform glyph that readers understand at a glance. Unicode maps this character to U+1FAF6 and it first shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). The code point ensures the same underlying meaning even though visual art varies by vendor. Hand and body symbols help where words lack physical presence. They clarify intent — whether you are waving, pointing, requesting, or celebrating — and add warmth to otherwise neutral text. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of heart hands stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (🫶), as an HTML entity (🫶), or as a shortcode (:heart-hands:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.

This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for heart hands — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Heart Hands emoji

• In chat: Drop 🫶 into a sentence where you would normally write “heart hands” to add tone and visual interest.
• On social media: Pair 🫶 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
• In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 🫶 or shortcode :heart-hands: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

Technical details & cross-platform notes

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