A hand heart is a gesture where a person uses their fingers to create the shape of a heart.

To make a hand heart, a person usually uses both thumbs to form the bottom of the heart. The other fingers are then bent so their fingernails touch, creating the top of the heart. In recent years, some people have changed the way they make the gesture by using only the index and middle fingers instead of the whole hand.

Sometimes, two people will each make half of a heart with their hands and join them together to show love or affection.

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

Google patent

In July 2011, Google applied for a patent that enabled Google Glass users to perform a hand heart gesture in front of an object. This action allowed the device to automatically identify the object, capture a photo, and share the image on social networks with a "like" label.