U+1FAF6 U+1F3FE
🫶🏾 Heart hands: medium-dark skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Two-Hand Gestures
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 14.0 (2021)
- Emoji version
- 14.0 (2021)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 🫶🏾 emoji means
Two hands making a heart shape, part of the set since Emoji 14.0. Love sent at a distance, and the gesture K-pop fans made global.
Newer than the classic hearts, so older phones may show it as a box. Softer and less romantic than ❤️ — closer to «thank you, I mean it».
Chat examples
What 🫶🏾 is made of
This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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🫶
heart hands
U+1FAF6 -
🏾
skin tone
U+1F3FE
Will your readers see 🫶🏾
The symbol belongs to the Emoji 14.0 set, and all four platforms have caught up with it. Below is the exact release for each.
- Apple since March 14, 2022 iOS 15.4
- Google since October 27, 2021 Android 12L
- Microsoft since September 20, 2022 Windows 11 22H2
- Samsung since October 24, 2022 One UI 5.0
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 🫶🏾 emoji is used
The 🫶🏾 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how heart hands: medium-dark skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 🫶🏾 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48