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 Twitter/X
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-partial
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Twemoji Attribution
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.
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