The heart hands emoji shows two hands held together forming a heart shape. It expresses love, warmth, and appreciation in a gentler, more "aesthetic" way than a heart symbol alone, and is popular for sending love to friends, celebrating someone, or captioning soft, sentimental photos.
What 🫶 means
A pair of human hands held together in the shape of a heart. The hands are shown as a pair belonging to someone from the Simpsons but don't worry, they will be available in all human skin tones.
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- This emoji could also be a sarcastic take on anything given its outdated appearance and style.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.
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.