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+1FAF6 prohibits a line break after it, if itβs followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character βheart handsβ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: <3, hands, heart, love, you.
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: π«ΆοΈ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this characterβs emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A hand heart is a gesture in which a person forms a heart shape using their fingers.
The "hand heart" is typically formed by one using both thumbs to form the bottom of the heart, while bending the remaining fingers and having them connect at the fingernails in order to form a heart shape. However, in recent years, the practice has evolved to include people using the index and middle fingers to form the heart, as opposed to using the entire hand.
Often, two people will each form half of a heart, conjoining the two as a sign of affection.
The upside down hand heart gesture was noted in art in 1989, when Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created an art image of the gesture as his first artwork named Family Syntax. The gesture became popular in the early 2010s. This gesture was added to Unicode 14.0 and Emoji 14.0 in 2021 with code point U+1FAF6π«ΆHEART HANDS.