🤞Crossed fingers symbol

🤞 Crossed fingers

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🤞 Emoji meaning

Good luck with the exam! Wishing luck, breaking promises.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Variants
  4.  Emoji History
  5.  Similar Emojis
  6.  Platforms
  7.  Emoji Details
  8.  Comments

🤞 Meaning

The closed fist with crossed index and middle fingers is used to wish someone luck. Children usually use this gesture to annihilate a promise or oath.

Examples

  • Fingers crossed for you. 🤞
  • Please let this work out! 🤞
  • Do you think it'll work this time? 🤞

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Crossed fingers
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Victory hand

Victory hand vs crossed fingers; both raise two fingers and can represent hope or success.

Variants

Skin tones
Crossed fingers
Crossed fingers: light skin tone
Crossed fingers: medium-light skin tone
Crossed fingers: medium skin tone
Crossed fingers: medium-dark skin tone
Crossed fingers: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Crossed fingers” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ crossed + fingers

Keywords removed

- crossed fingers

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ crossed fingers

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ cross + finger + hand + luck

Similar emojis from "Hands and Body Parts"

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Hands and Body Parts
👋 Waving hand 🤚 Raised back of hand 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed ✋ Raised hand 🖖 Vulcan salute 🫱 Rightwards hand 🫲 Leftwards hand 🫴 Palm up hand 🫳 Palm down hand 🫷 Leftwards pushing hand 🫸 Rightwards pushing hand 👌 OK hand 🤌 Pinched fingers 🤏 Pinching hand ✌️ Victory hand 🤞 Crossed fingers 🫰 Hand with index finger and thumb crossed 🤟 Love-you gesture 🤘 Sign of the horns 🤙 Call me hand 👈 Backhand index pointing left 👉 Backhand index pointing right 👆 Backhand index pointing up 🖕 Middle finger 👇 Backhand index pointing down ☝️ Index pointing up 🫵 Index pointing at the viewer 👍 Thumbs up 👎 Thumbs down 👊 Oncoming fist ✊ Raised fist 🤛 Left-facing fist 🤜 Right-facing fist 👏 Clapping hands 🙌 Raising hands 🫶 Heart hands 👐 Open hands 🤲 Palms up together 🤝 Handshake 🙏 Folded hands ✍️ Writing hand 💅 Nail polish 🤳 Selfie 💪 Flexed biceps 🦾 Mechanical arm 🦿 Mechanical leg 🦵 Leg 🦶 Foot 👂 Ear 🦻 Ear with hearing aid 👃 Nose 🧠 Brain 🫀 Anatomical heart 🫁 Lungs 🦷 Tooth 🦴 Bone 👀 Eyes 👁️ Eye 👅 Tongue 👄 Mouth 🫦 Biting lip 👣 Footprints 🫆 Fingerprint 🧬 Dna 🩸 Drop of blood
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Comments

(4) Comments

  • The sign of a beautiful interaction with each other.

  • Crossed fingers represent two hearts and secret love between them.

  • Can also represent Gojo's Domain Expansion form in Jujutsu Kaisen.

  • Used to express the feeling of closeness and trust.