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U+1FAF0 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed

U+1FAF0 was added in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021. It belongs to the block U+1FA70 to U+1FAFF Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1FAF0 prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.

The CLDR project calls this character “hand with index finger and thumb crossed” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: expensive, heart, love, money, snap.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🫰︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The mini heart gesture is a trend that was popularized in South Korea in which the index finger and thumb come together like a snap to form a tiny heart. The gesture was popularized by K-pop idols, who would often use the gesture to express their love and gratitude to their fans. It is represented in Unicode with the codepoint U+1FAF0 🫰 as "Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed".

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	129776
UTF-8	F0 9F AB B0
UTF-16	D8 3E DE F0
UTF-32	00 01 FA F0
URL-Quoted	%F0%9F%AB%B0
HTML hex reference	🫰
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ðŸ«°

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	14.0 (2021)
Unicode Name (na)	HAND WITH INDEX FINGER AND THUMB CROSSED
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A
General Category (gc)	Other Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Case Folding (cf)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✔
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✔
Emoji (Emoji)	✔
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✔
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Emoji Base
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U