There is no pinky promise emoji: no emoji name or CLDR search word mentions a pinky or a promise. Here are 50 stand-ins: three hands with the little finger up, deals, locks, ten lines of plain text and 14 combos.
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Two emoji, one string
For pinky promise emoji copy and paste, press Copy under the big pair or tap any tile. Each combo lands on the clipboard as one string. Pick a skin tone once and every hand follows it, both hands in Pinkies linked included. Search reads CLDR's words for each emoji, so deal finds Handshake alone.
Which hands raise the little finger
Three emoji do. Call me hand puts out the thumb and little finger, the gesture Wikipedia describes as the shaka. Sign of the horns raises the index and little fingers, and Love-you gesture adds the thumb to that. For pinky emoji copy and paste with no emoji in it, \m/ is three ASCII characters and arrives anywhere text does.
Tips
Promising not to tell? Send Sworn to secrecy: Call me hand, then Zipper-mouth face, one of only two emoji CLDR gives the word keep.
Leave Crossed fingers out when you mean it. Wikipedia records a children's belief that crossing your fingers while promising cancels the promise.
ๆๅใ is yubikiri, the gesture's Japanese name, and ์ฝ์ is Korean for promise. Each needs a font for its script.
Questions and answers
Is there a pinky promise emoji?
No. Search Unicode's emoji list, version 18.0, for pinky, pinkie, promise, swear, oath, vow or pledge and nothing comes back, in the names or in CLDR's search words. The nearest is swearing, which CLDR gives to Face with symbols on mouth: the other kind.
Does any Unicode character show a little finger by name?
Only in Sutton SignWriting, a block for writing sign languages, which has 61 hand shapes with little in the name, such as U+1D892, Signwriting hand-fist little up. They are not emoji and need a SignWriting font, so no tile uses one.
Where does the pinky promise come from?
Wikipedia dates it in North America to at least 1860. In Japan it is yubikiri, finger cut-off, and the vow makes a liar swallow a thousand needles. In South Korea the thumbs touch as a seal while the pinkies stay hooked, hence Hook, then seal.
๐ค๐๐คPinkies linkedCall me hand, then link, then call me hand. Two little fingers with Link between them, which is as near as emoji get to hooking them.
๐ค๐คPinky promiseCall me hand, then handshake. Not one emoji but two, because Unicode has no pinky promise. A little finger out, then the deal. Both hands follow the skin tone you pick.
๐ค๐คTwo pinkies outCall me hand 2 times. One hand each, a moment before the hooking.
Hands with the little finger up 3
๐คCall me handU+1F919. Thumb and little finger out, the rest curled: the gesture Wikipedia describes as the shaka. CLDR lists call, hang, loose and Shaka, and nothing about promises. Emoji 3.0.
๐คLove-you gestureU+1F91F. The horns with the thumb out as well. Its formal Unicode name is I love you hand sign, and CLDR lists ILY. Emoji 5.0.
๐คSign of the hornsU+1F918. Index and little finger up, the middle two held down by the thumb. CLDR lists horns and rock-on. Emoji 1.0.
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Deals, oaths and luck 11
๐คCrossed fingersU+1F91E. The one hand CLDR files under luck. Wikipedia records a children's belief that crossing your fingers while promising cancels the promise, so mind who sees it. Emoji 3.0.
๐คฌFace with symbols on mouthU+1F92C. The only emoji CLDR files under swearing, and it means the other kind. Emoji 5.0.
๐Folded handsU+1F64F. For the asking that comes before the promise. CLDR lists please, beg and ask. Emoji 0.6.
๐คHandshakeU+1F91D. The only emoji CLDR files under deal or agreement. It dates from Emoji 3.0, and its skin tones arrived in Emoji 14.0. Emoji 3.0.
๐ฏHundred pointsU+1F4AF. No other emoji gets faithful or truth from CLDR, which also lists keep and definitely here. Emoji 0.6.
๐ซฒLeftwards handU+1FAF2. The other half. Rightwards hand, a joiner and this one make the handshakes that have two different skin tones. Emoji 14.0.
๐Oncoming fistU+1F44A. A fist bump. CLDR lists agree, absolutely, bro and bump. Emoji 0.6.
๐งโ๐คโ๐งPeople holding handsU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1. Two people joined by a handshake, literally: the sequence is Person, Handshake, Person. CLDR lists bestie, bff and friends. Emoji 12.0.
โRaised handU+270B. An open palm, the way a hand goes up for an oath. CLDR has no such word for it: it lists five, high and stop. Emoji 0.6.
๐ซฑRightwards handU+1FAF1. Half a handshake, from Emoji 14.0. CLDR lists handshake, hold and reach. Emoji 14.0.
โ๏ธWriting handU+270D U+FE0F. For a promise in writing. It takes a skin tone and has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
Locks, knots and keeping it 8
โพ๏ธInfinityU+267E U+FE0F. The only emoji CLDR files under forever. From Emoji 11.0. Emoji 11.0.
๐ชขKnotU+1FAA2. CLDR lists tie, twine and twist. From Emoji 13.0. Emoji 13.0.
๐LinkU+1F517. Two links of a chain, and only two CLDR words: link and links. Emoji 0.6.
๐LockedU+1F512. Locked in. CLDR lists closed, lock, locked and private. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฉทPink heartU+1FA77. Pinky by colour only. From Emoji 15.0, so an older device shows an empty box. Emoji 15.0.
๐RingU+1F48D. For the kind of promise that comes with jewellery. CLDR lists engaged and engagement. Emoji 0.6.
๐ชกSewing needleU+1FAA1. The Japanese vow that goes with the gesture, as Wikipedia gives it, makes a liar swallow a thousand needles. Unicode supplies one. Emoji 13.0.
๐คZipper-mouth faceU+1F910. For a promise not to tell. With Hundred points, one of two emoji CLDR gives the word keep, and it also gets secret and zip. Emoji 1.0.
Broken and doubted 4
โ๏ธโ๐ฅBroken chainU+26D3 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F4A5. Chains joined to Collision, from Emoji 15.1, so an older device shows the two parts. CLDR lists break, broken and freedom. Emoji 15.1.
๐Broken heartU+1F494. What a broken promise costs. CLDR lists break, broken and crushed. Emoji 0.6.
๐คจFace with raised eyebrowU+1F928. The only emoji CLDR files under distrust, beside disbelief and skeptical. For a promise you have heard before. Emoji 5.0.
๐คฅLying faceU+1F925. The only emoji CLDR files under liar, lie or pinocchio. Emoji 3.0.
Pinky promise in plain text 10
แดษชษดแดส แดสแดแดษช๊ฑแดThe two words in small capitals
โโโโโจ โโกโโโโขโThe two words in circled letters
ใใณใใYubikiri again, all in hiragana, as Wiktionary spells it
ใฝ(ยดใผ`)ไบบ(ยดโ๏ฝ)ไบบ(`ะยด)ใWikipedia lists this one as friendly: three figures, hands meeting
ๆๅใYubikiri, finger cut-off: the Japanese name Wikipedia gives for the pinky swear
ๆๅใๆณไธYubikiri genman: the first two words of the vow
๐น๐ฒ๐ท๐ด๐ ๐น๐ป๐ธ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฎThe two words in mathematical bold script
\m/The sign of the horns in ASCII: the outer strokes are the index and little fingers
Promises with terms 11
๐คฅ๐ชกA thousand needlesLying face, then sewing needle. The penalty clause of the Japanese vow. Unicode stops at one needle.
๐งโ๐คโ๐ง๐คBest friends, swornPeople holding hands, then call me hand. CLDR lists bestie and bff for the pair.
๐คโพ๏ธFor everCall me hand, then infinity. CLDR files Infinity under forever.
๐ค๐Hook, then sealCall me hand, then thumbs up. Wikipedia records a South Korean version in which the thumbs touch as a seal while the pinkies are still hooked.
๐คโ๏ธIn writing as wellCall me hand, then writing hand. Hooked, then signed.
๐ค๐Locked inCall me hand, then locked. No take-backs.
๐ฉท๐คPink-y promisePink heart, then handshake. A pun, and the only pink on the page.
๐ค๐Promise brokenCall me hand, then broken heart. For the message afterwards.
๐ค๐ฏPromise keptCall me hand, then hundred points. CLDR gives Hundred points the words keep and faithful.
๐ค๐คSworn to secrecyCall me hand, then zipper-mouth face. For a promise not to tell.
๐ค๐คWith a loopholeCall me hand, then crossed fingers. A promise, and the gesture said to cancel one.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. Unicode has no pinky promise emoji: in emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt), no emoji name contains pinky, pinkie, promise, swear, oath, vow or pledge as a word, and nor does any search word in the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch); the nearest, swearing, belongs to Face with symbols on mouth. In UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), the little finger is named only in the Sutton SignWriting block (61 hand shapes, among them U+1D892). So every item here is a stand-in. The 26 single emoji, their names, code points, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt; names are the CLDR short names in sentence case, and the search words quoted in the notes are CLDR's. Text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Which fingers each gesture raises is from Wikipedia: Shaka sign, Sign of the horns (which also records the \m/ emoticon) and ILY sign. The Japanese name, the vow about a thousand needles, the South Korean thumb seal and the 1860 date are from Wikipedia's article Pinky swear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_swear); the hiragana spelling is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ๆๅใ), as is the Korean word for promise (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/์ฝ์). The belief that crossed fingers cancel a promise is from Wikipedia's article Crossed fingers, and the friendly text face from its List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons). The choice of stand-ins, the 14 combos and their names are this site's own; nobody has standardised them. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are ours; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words and credited in source)