Pinching hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned hand with the thumb and index finger held close together, leaving only a tiny gap between them. The gesture mimics the physical action of measuring or indicating a microscopic size.

Usage Context

Used to suggest that something is very small, a tiny amount, or to imply a 'little bit' of something. It is a popular way to sarcastically mock the size of a specific object or to emphasize that one has zero patience left for a situation. It is often used alongside 👌 when discussing precision or 🤏 to highlight different skin tone variations.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019. It was part of a major push to expand hand gesture support, drawing inspiration from universal non-verbal communication used in human interaction to signify small quantities without needing words.

Details

Glyph

🤏🏿

Unicode

U+1F90F U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f90f_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD0F;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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