🤞️ Crossed fingers emoji
HTML
🤞
Unicode
U+1F91E
What is 🤞️ called?
🤞️ is called the Crossed fingers emoji.
Often called the fingers-crossed emoji, good-luck hand, or hope gesture. The official name describes the physical finger position rather than promising a lucky result.
What does 🤞️ mean?
🤞 crosses the index finger over the middle finger and usually means hope, good luck, or wishing that an uncertain outcome goes well. It is natural before exams, interviews, medical results, launches, and competitions.
In some traditions, secretly crossing fingers can imply that a promise does not count or that somebody is hiding dishonesty. That secondary meaning is much less common than luck in ordinary emoji messages.
Other meanings
Fingers crossed, hoping for success, making a wish, wishing somebody luck, anxious optimism, or context-dependent insincerity.
Example Usage
I hope the interview goes well today 🤞
Fingers crossed that the rain stays away 🤞
More details
Officially named crossed fingers. Its code point is U+1F91E, introduced in Emoji 3.0. It supports the standard five skin-tone modifiers.
Variants
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Hand gestures emojis
Visual description
An upright hand with the index and middle fingers raised and twisted across one another, while the other fingers fold down.
The overlap between the two long fingers is the defining detail. Default colour is yellow, with five skin-tone variants.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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