Pinched Fingers Emoji
Copy 🤌 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 🤌 mean?
Fingers and thumb drawn to a point — the Italian hand gesture, roughly “what are you talking about?”
🤌 is the pinched fingers emoji. It belongs to the People & Body group, in the hand fingers partial set, and was approved as part of Emoji 13.0.
People also search for it as fingers, gesture, hand, hold, huh, interrogation, patience, pinched, relax, sarcastic.
How to use 🤌
Used to signal exasperation or emphasis, and very widely as a stand-in for Italian identity, cooking, and jokes about both.
Click the copy button above to put 🤌 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :pinched_fingers: directly.
Good to know
Added in 2020 after years of requests. Its reception was mixed in Italy, where the gesture is specific and the emoji is often used loosely.
Skin tone variants
Pinched Fingers supports 5 skin tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Technical details
| Name | Pinched Fingers |
|---|---|
| Character | 🤌 |
| Codepoint | U+1F90C |
| HTML entity | 🤌 |
| CSS code | \1F90C |
| Shortcode | :pinched_fingers: |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subgroup | hand fingers partial |
| Emoji version | Emoji 13.0 |
| Keywords | fingers, gesture, hand, hold, huh, interrogation, patience, pinched, relax, sarcastic, ugh, what, zip |