U+1F91E · emoji since 2016
Crossed fingers are hope in hand form: wishing for luck, praying the plan works, willing the result to land your way.
Send it before interviews, results, and weather dependent weekends. It's superstition's most portable gesture, available in every skin tone.
In texting, 🤞 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🤞 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Crossed Fingers emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the crossed fingers emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🤞 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.