🤌 "pinched fingers" emoji (copy and paste)
pinched fingers
An emoji showing the fingers held together in a vertical orientation, often referred to as the Italian hand gesture ma che vuoi, sometimes called the "finger purse".
Meaning of the pinched fingers Emoji
In Italy this gesture tends to be used in disagreement, frustration, or disbelief and can mean “What do you want?” or “What are you saying?” Outside Italy, people may see the upright version of this gesture as a way of asking for a small amount of something, or may mistake it for the "OK" sign. In the U.S., the gesture is typically known as a way to tell others to call them, or as a way of asking for the check in a restaurant. Pinched Fingers was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 in 2020.
Usage Examples
- What do you want? 🤌
- Expressing frustration 🤌
- Italian gesture 🤌
- Finger purse 🤌
- Ma che vuoi 🤌
Alternative Names
pinched fingers, ma che vuoi, finger purse, italian hand
Related Word Associations
disagreement, frustration, disbelief, italian, finger purse
Appearance in OpenMoji
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Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F90C
- Version:
- Emoji E13.0
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :pinched_fingers: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :pinched_fingers: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :pinched_fingers: |
| HTML Dec | 🤌 |
| HTML Hex | 🤌 |
| CSS | \01F90C |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001f90c |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDD0C |
| Perl | \x{1F90C} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F90C} |
| Punycode | xn--0p9h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%A4%8C |
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