The love-you gesture: dark skin tone is the ASL “I love you” hand sign—index and pinky up, thumb out, middle and ring snugly folded—now in a rich dark brown skin tone. It’s the perfect mix of wholesome and hype: a quick way to send love, stan your fave, or end a text with big supportive energy without going full Shakespeare sonnet. People drop it in DMs like a digital hug, in comment sections to hype creators, or as a flirty “ily, bestie (but maybe also low-key you)” move. It can even read a little ironic when paired with chaotic memes—think “I’m late again, but love you!” energy.
Culturally, it borrows from American Sign Language but lives all over the internet, from K-pop stan timelines to Twitch chat spam and wholesome TikTok outros. Pro tip: this is not the metal “horns” emoji—thumb out means love, not mosh pit; the thumb is the plot twist that separates “ILY” from “rock on.” It’s also a gentle way to express affection in group chats without triggering the “are we doing feelings right now?” alarm.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy right hand with soft gradients, palm facing forward at a slight angle, index and pinky extended, thumb splayed, and the other two fingers curved inward. The dark skin tone variant shows a deep, even brown with subtle shading, rounded knuckles, and that clean, almost toy-like Apple finish. If you’ve ever mistaken it for Spider-Man web-slinging, zoom in: the middle finger’s tucked—no web, just love.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2184 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤟🏿 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤟🏿 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤟 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤟 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f91f, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F91F, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129311, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x9F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 9F, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 237, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD1F, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd1f, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56607, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F91F 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F91F, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129311, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F91F\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x9f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD1F\uD83C\uDFFF" |
