Pinched fingers: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with a medium skin tone showing all fingers and the thumb brought together in a vertical, pinched point. It mimics the classic Italian gesture where the hand is shaken to emphasize a point or express frustration.

Usage Context

Widely used to ask 'what do you want?' or to emphasize that someone is talking too much. It is frequently employed in internet arguments to represent Italian culture or to sarcastically mock someone's point, often paired with 🙄 or 🤌 variations.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2020 after massive global demand. While it has roots in Mediterranean non-verbal communication, it exploded in popularity online as a way to visually punctuate aggressive or confused questions.

Details

Glyph

🤌🏽

Unicode

U+1F90C U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f90c_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD0C;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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