Pinching hand: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A hand with the thumb and index finger held closely together, leaving a tiny gap between the fingertips. The skin tone is rendered in a medium shade, depicting a gesture of measurement or indication of a minute quantity.
Usage Context
Widely used to imply that something is small, scarce, or just a tiny bit more than nothing. It is a go-to choice for sarcastic humor when someone wants to mock a situation or express that they are on the verge of losing their patience. It is often paired with emojis like 👌 to show scale or 🤏 in different skin tones to suit the conversation.
History
This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019. Its inclusion was part of a broader effort to bring common human gestures into the digital lexicon, reflecting how people use physical signals to bridge the gap between spoken language and text-based communication.
Details
Glyph
🤏🏽
Unicode
U+1F90F U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f90f_1f3fd:
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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