The love-you gesture is the ASL “I Love You” hand sign in emoji form—thumb out, index and pinky up, middle and ring tucked in like they’re on a coffee break. It beams warmth, gratitude, and straight-up “ILYSM” energy in texts to friends, partners, and internet mutuals. People drop it after compliments, supportive replies, or even post-roast cleanups—“that was savage, ily tho.” You’ll see it in concert captions, graduation posts, and stan replies where it reads as wholesome cheerleader vibes.
On Apple/iOS, it’s the classic yellow hand with soft gradients, rounded 3D shading, palm facing the viewer, and a confidently splayed thumb; the middle and ring fingers curl toward the palm, no sleeve in sight. It supports skin tone modifiers, and the instantly recognizable tell is the thumb being out—so it’s love, not the rock concert sign. In DMs and comments, it works as flirty-but-sweet, a peace offering after a spicy take, or a quick way to sign off with affection. Basically, it’s a compact, copy-paste hug that says “we’re good” without typing an essay.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 359 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 |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤟 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤟 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤟 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤟 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f91f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F91F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129311 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x9F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 9F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 237 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD1F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd1f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56607 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F91F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F91F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129311 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F91F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x9f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD1F" |
