Good Luck Emoji

🍀 Four Leaf Clover is the usual answer. Most clovers have three leaves, and finding a four-leaf one is rare (often quoted as about 1 in 5,000 to 10,000), which is why it became a lucky charm in Irish and wider European folklore. Don’t mix it up with ☘️ Shamrock: the three-leaf shamrock is the symbol of Ireland and St Patrick’s Day, not luck as such, though many people use it the same way.

🤞 Crossed Fingers (Unicode 9.0, 2016) is the gesture version: “fingers crossed for you”. Note that 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed is not the luck gesture; it is the Korean finger heart (and sometimes a money sign).

Lucky emoji from around the world

Luck has a different symbol in almost every culture, and many of them have emoji. 🧿 Nazar Amulet is the blue eye bead from Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean that wards off the evil eye; 🪬 Hamsa (Emoji 14.0) is the protective hand from the Middle East and North Africa. 🧧 Red Envelope holds lucky money at Lunar New Year, 🉠 is the Chinese character 福 fu (good fortune), and 🥠 Fortune Cookie carries a small prophecy.

In Germany a red 🍄 fly agaric (Glückspilz, “lucky mushroom”) and a 🐷 pig (Glücksschwein) are New Year lucky charms. 🐞 Ladybugs are considered lucky across Europe, an 🐘 elephant with its trunk up is a lucky ornament in many homes, and 🐈‍⬛ black cats are bad luck in the US but good luck in Britain and Japan. Gamblers have 🎲, 🎰 and the lucky 7️⃣; for wishes there is 🌠, 🌈, 🎋 (the Tanabata wish tree) and 🧞, the genie who grants three.

Good luck emoji for an exam, interview or game

Before an exam: 🍀📚, 🤞🎓 or 💪📝 (“you’ve got this”). Before a job interview: 🤞💼 or 🍀👔. Before a match or a race: 💪🏆, 🎯🔥 or 🚀. After the result, switch to 🥇 🏅 🎉 for congratulations.

Students in Japan swap KitKat bars before exams because the name sounds like kitto katsu, “you’ll surely win”; in Korea, sticky taffy (yeot) is given so the student will “stick” to their chosen university.

Good luck emoji meaning: clover, star, rainbow, 7

🌠 Shooting Star and ⭐ are wishes; ✨ adds magic and sparkle to any wish. 🌈 is hope after a hard time. 🙏 here means “praying for you”, 👍 and 💪 are encouragement more than luck, and 💯 says “you’ll do great”. 💰 and 🪙 are luck with money. 🎍 is the Japanese New Year pine decoration (kadomatsu) that welcomes good fortune.

Good luck symbols and text

For text without colour emoji, use ♣ ♧ (the club suit looks like a clover), ★ ☆ ✦ ✧ stars, or ⚅ a die showing six. Common short forms are gl (good luck), gl hf (good luck, have fun) in games, and “fingers crossed” or “break a leg” — theatre people consider saying “good luck” itself unlucky.