Pinched fingers: light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture with all fingers and thumb brought together in a vertical point, rendered in a light skin tone. It depicts the classic Italian hand sign where the fingers are bunched to express frustration, questioning, or intense emphasis.

Usage Context

This gesture is a universal shorthand for asking 'what do you want?' or 'what are you doing?' It is frequently used in digital arguments to express exasperation, sarcasm, or disbelief. It often accompanies messages regarding food quality or when questioning someone's logic, pairing naturally with emojis like 🙄 or 😒.

History

While this gesture has been used in Mediterranean cultures for centuries to emphasize points during conversation, it was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2020. Its inclusion followed years of internet discourse and requests from users who wanted a visual way to represent the 'chef's kiss' compliment or the classic Italian hand-talking stereotype.

Details

Glyph

🤌🏻

Unicode

U+1F90C U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f90c_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD0C;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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