🤟 Love-you gesture
🤟 Emoji meaning
I love you gesture, affection, positive message, sign language.
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🤟 Meaning
In the American sign language, the fist with outstretched little finger, index finger and thumb means “I love you“. The ILY sign mainly conveys a general, positive message.
Examples
- I love you. 🤟
- You're awesome! 🤟
- Did you miss me? 🤟
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Commonly confused with
Direction Variant
Love-you gesture vs sign of the horns; similar hand shapes used for fandom, rock, or support.
Same Shape
Love-you gesture vs OK hand; both can be used to show positive sentiment or approval in casual use.
Sign of the horns vs love-you; both similar rock-style gestures, non-experts may treat them as the same.
Variants
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Love-you gesture” was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
In the release of Emoji 4.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords added
Similar emojis from "Hands and Body Parts"
Comments
(2) Comments
Anonymous It also symbolizes Spider-Man.
Henry It's rock 'n' roll 🤟️