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
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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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