Pinching hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with a medium-dark skin tone held in a pinching gesture, with the thumb and index finger nearly touching. It represents something small, a tiny amount of something, or a brief moment.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to imply that something is very little, such as a small pay raise, a short amount of time, or a tiny portion of food. It is also common in internet culture to sarcastically suggest that something is barely noticeable, often used alongside 😒 or 🙄 to highlight disappointment in a lack of effort or volume.

History

The pinching hand was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0. Its design gained immediate popularity for its versatility in expressing 'just a little bit' of anything, and it has since become a staple for negotiating or making light of underwhelming situations.

Details

Glyph

🤏🏾

Unicode

U+1F90F U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f90f_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD0F;&#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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