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Affectionate hand gesture For the thumb-and-finger gesture popularised in South Korea, see Finger heart. For the symbol of charity, see Heart in hand.

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A hand heart is a gesture in which a person forms a heart shape using their fingers.

The "hand heart" is typically formed by one using both thumbs to form the bottom of the heart, while bending the remaining fingers and having them connect at the fingernails in order to form a heart shape. However, in recent years, the practice has evolved to include people using the index and middle fingers to form the heart, as opposed to using the entire hand.

Often, two people will each form half of a heart, conjoining the two as a sign of affection.

The upside down hand heart gesture was noted in art in 1989, when Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created an art image of the gesture as his first artwork named Family Syntax. The gesture became popular in the early 2010s. This gesture was added to Unicode 14.0 and Emoji 14.0 in 2021 with code point U+1FAF6 🫶 HEART HANDS.

Google patent

Google filed a patent in July 2011 that allowed Google Glass users to use the hand heart in front of an object to cause the gadget to automatically recognise the object, take a picture, and send it to social networks as a "liked" image.

References

Meltzer, Marisa (2011-08-09). "When Two Thumbs Down Are a Sign of Approval". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
"Gen Z can pinpoint Millennials by this simple hand gesture". The Independent. 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
Cué, Elena (2015-01-30). "A Conversation With Maurizio Cattelan". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
Meltzer, Marisa (2011-08-09). "When Two Thumbs Down Are a Sign of Approval". The New York Times.
"Heart Hands Emoji". Emojipedia. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
Vincent, James (18 October 2013). "Google patents the heart hand-gesture to let you 'like' things with Glass". The Independent.
"Google Patented the 'Heart' Gesture and Other Fun Hand Moves". Vice. Archived from the original on 2016-11-10. Retrieved 2015-02-08.

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