Pinching hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture showing the thumb and index finger held very close together, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The gap between the digits suggests a minuscule measurement or a tiny fraction of something.

Usage Context

This is the go-to emoji for indicating a small amount, a short duration, or for sarcastically downplaying a situation. It is frequently used in memes to represent a 'tiny' problem or to emphasize that someone has 'zero' patience, often paired with 🙄 or 🤏.

History

Introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, this emoji was added to provide a quick way to express scale or physical proximity. It gained rapid popularity on social media platforms as a way to visually convey 'just a little bit' during casual text conversations.

Details

Glyph

🤏🏼

Unicode

U+1F90F U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f90f_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD0F;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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