Pinching hand emoji 🤏
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F90F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤏 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🤏 are amount, bit, fingers, hand, little, pinching, small, sort. They show what people use it for.
Search for amount or bit on your emoji keyboard and 🤏 is among the results.
You will find 🤏 among the finger gestures (9 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include ✌️ 🤞 🫰 🤟.
Besides the default yellow, 🤏 has 5 skin tones, from 🤏🏻 light to 🤏🏿 dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🤏 show on my friend's phone?
Emoji 12.0 brought 🤏 in 2019. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.
How to type 🤏
Search for pinching hand in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🤏.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type pinching hand.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type pinching hand in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type pinching hand.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🤏 is one code point (U+1F90F), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F90F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤏 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤏 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F90F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F90F} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤏 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | pinching hand |
| Português | mão beliscando |
| Español | mano pellizcando |
| Italiano | mano che fa il gesto del pizzico |
| Français | pouce et index rapprochés |
| Deutsch | Wenig-Geste |
| Türkçe | kıstırma hareketi yapan el |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tangan menjepit |
| Polski | dłoń z gestem „trochę” |
| Русский | жест «мало» |
| 日本語 | つまんでいる指 |
| 한국어 | 꼬집는 손 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the pinching hand emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤏 "pinching hand" and links it with amount, bit, fingers, hand. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the finger gestures subgroup of people & body.
When was the pinching hand emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🤏?
Yes. 🤏 has these skin tones: 🤏🏻 🤏🏼 🤏🏽 🤏🏾 🤏🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.