The heart hands emoji 🫶 is one people reach for without thinking, and its tone shifts with the moment. Unicode officially calls it “Heart Hands” (U+1FAF6).
In everyday use it usually connects with <3, hands, heart. Like any emoji, the exact tone depends on context, the platform, and who is reading it — so a few words alongside it remove any doubt.
“One small symbol, a lot of meaning, depending on the moment.”
Context matters with 🫶. The same emoji can read warmly among friends but feel abrupt when sent alone to someone you barely know. Read the conversation, and add a few words when the tone could be taken the wrong way.
⚠️ Warm and friendly, but new. 🫶 to a stranger may show as a blank box on an older phone.
| Context | Scale |
|---|---|
| Formal use | ████░░░░░░ 4/10 |
| Casual use | ████████░░ 8/10 |
| Positive | █████████░ 9/10 |
| Negative | █░░░░░░░░░ 1/10 |
| Romantic | ██████░░░░ 6/10 |
| Platonic | ████░░░░░░ 4/10 |
In a group chat, a single 🫶 can answer faster than a sentence — on a friend’s post it reads as a reaction, in a reply it reads as tone.
| Emoji version | Emoji 14.0 |
| Unicode | U+1FAF6 |
| Category | People & Body |
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Spanish | manos formando un corazón |
| Portuguese | mãos de coração |
| French | mains qui forment un cœur |
| German | Hände, die Herz bilden |
| Arabic | أيدي متشابكة على شكل قلب |
| Hindi | हाथों से बना दिल का चिह्न |
| Urdu | ہاتھوں سے بنا دل |
| Japanese | ハート形の手 |
| Korean | 손 하트 |
| Chinese | 做成心形的双手 |
| Turkish | kalp oluşturan eller |
| Indonesian | tangan membentuk hati |
| Filipino | nakapusong kamay |
🫶 appears widely across social media, messaging and brand communications. Its exact meaning keeps evolving with internet culture and the communities that use it most.
| Format | Code |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FAF6 |
| HTML Decimal | 🫶 |
| HTML Hex | 🫶 |
| CSS | \1FAF6 |
Full specification: Unicode Full Emoji List.
Win + . → search the nameControl + Command + Space🫶Its meaning depends on context — see the Tone Guide above. Check the Misread Alert and Tone Guide above for context.
Same Unicode (U+1FAF6), different artwork — Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft each design their own.
Check the Tone Guide — a low formal score means keep it out of formal, client-facing messages.
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