The heart-hands emoji shows two hands held together forming a heart shape, expressing love, warmth, and appreciation. It's a gentler, more "aesthetic" way to send a heart than the classic symbol, popular for sending love to friends, celebrating someone, or captioning soft, sentimental photos.
What 🫶 means
The default pair comes in the usual cartoon yellow rather than a skin tone, so it reads a bit Simpsons at first glance — but all five human skin tones are there too, same as every other hand emoji.
The 🫶 Heart Hands emoji have been a social media rage for a while now. Though a little 2000s, the present age, and generation never shy away from being a little old school in aesthetic photos. This emoji signifies love, as the heart suggests, friendship, togetherness, and our favorite, cliché.
How and when to use it
- To form a heart with your hands could either be a genuine way of saying that you like/love something. Like, "Aww, love the whole thing! 🫶".
- This emoji could also be a sarcastic take on anything given its outdated appearance and style. For example, "How about a heart. Made with my hands. 🫶 For you." or "Aw, man. Didn't anybody give you enough love? Here's some 🫶 ".
- Although there's a visible air of cliché and cringe attached to the heart hands, it is, in fact, a sweet display of mutual love and togetherness because both hands needn't be yours. So, if you're sharing a picture of a heart made by two, one being you and the other a close someone, you can use this emoji.
- Besides, you may use this emoji while referring to the shape of your heart too. See, very 2000s 🫶.
Other Names
- 🫶 A Pair of Hands Making a Heart
- 🫶 Shape of Your Heart
- 🫶 Photo Pose
- 🫶 Heart Made With Hands
- 🫶 Two Halves of a Whole
- 🫶 2000's Trend
- 🫶 Heart Pose
🫶 in real conversations
What does 🫶 mean from a girl?
Affection and appreciation — “love you,” “love this” — in a gentler register than a straight ❤️. Common between friends as much as anything romantic.
What does 🫶 mean from a guy?
Warm support without the weight of a heart emoji: “love that for you,” “appreciate you.” It reads as low-stakes and sincere at the same time.
What does 🫶 mean in texting?
Gratitude, solidarity, affection. It only arrived with Emoji 14.0 in 2022, so it skews younger — the gesture is the same one people make at concerts.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hands
- Codepoints
U+1FAF6- Emoji version
- Emoji 14.0
- Shortcodes
:heart_hands:- Keywords
- <3, hands, heart, love, you
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🫶 Heart Hands or 🦘 Kangaroo?
Runs with a crowd
🫶 keeps company in hand emojis and heart emojis and love emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.