Pinched fingers: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with a medium-dark skin tone held in a vertical orientation with all fingers and thumb brought together in a pinched point. It replicates the classic Italian hand gesture often referred to as the 'ma che vuoi' or 'what do you want' sign.

Usage Context

This is the go-to emoji for expressing frustration, questioning someone's motives, or emphasizing a point during a heated debate. It acts as a visual stand-in for phrases like 'what do you want?', 'are you serious?', or 'what are you talking about?'. It is frequently paired with the face with rolling eyes or shrug emojis to double down on a sarcastic or exasperated tone.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2020, this gesture gained massive popularity on social media platforms long before its official release. It was originally proposed to represent the hand movement associated with eating or explaining something with passion, but it quickly became an internet-wide shorthand for questioning the sanity of a situation.

Details

Glyph

🤌🏾

Unicode

U+1F90C U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f90c_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD0C;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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