crossed fingers
U+1F91E
− Avoid when: after it didn't work. send 🥲 then
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Hoping for something specific. Stakes range from parking spots to biopsy results. It doesn't ask which and you don't have to say.
When to use
- +"results tomorrow 🤞"
- +"they're announcing the cast today 🤞"
- +"one last spot on the train 🤞"
Avoid when
- −after it didn't work. send 🥲 then
Wishing for luck — index and middle finger crossed, "fingers crossed" for a good outcome. The everyday hopeful gesture.
Cancelling a promise — crossing the fingers (classically behind the back) to secretly void a promise or excuse a lie, mostly in children's play logic.
A sign of the Cross — early Christians crossed fingers to invoke the protection of the Holy Cross and ward off evil, the historical root of the luck gesture.
A rude gesture — in Vietnam the crossed fingers is considered offensive, reportedly likened to female genitalia, so the Western "good luck" reading does not carry.
Avoid when
- −directing it at another person in Vietnam