Pinching hand: light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with a light skin tone shown with the thumb and index finger held very close together, indicating a tiny amount or distance. The fingers are curved as if grasping a minuscule object or measuring a gap.

Usage Context

This gesture is the go-to way to suggest that something is small, brief, or scarce. People use it to signal a 'little bit' of something, to emphasize a minute detail, or to be sarcastic when pointing out how insignificant a problem or person is. It is frequently sent alongside 🤏 for emphasis or contrasted with 👌 to show a change in scale.

History

Added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0, this emoji was heavily requested to capture the universal 'small amount' hand gesture. It quickly became a staple in internet culture, often used in memes to mock someone’s ego or to highlight tiny quantities during online arguments.

Details

Glyph

🤏🏻

Unicode

U+1F90F U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f90f_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD0F;&#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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