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
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-partial
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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