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🤏🏻 pinching hand emoji
The pinching hand emoji 🤏🏻 depicts fingers held close together, indicating a small amount or a little bit. It is used in contexts related to tiny quantities, small sizes, or describing just a bit of something. The gesture can also accompany brief comparisons of amount.
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- Category
- People & Body
- Unicode version
- 12.0
- Release year
- 2019
- Unicode sequence
- U+1F90F U+1F3FB
- Emoji version
- 12.0
What does 🤏🏻 mean?
A hand depicted with the thumb and index finger pinched together, forming a small circle. The hand is typically shown in a light skin tone with a neutral or slightly positive expression. This emoji represents a gesture of pinching or holding something very small, often used to emphasize minuteness or to indicate something is insignificant. It is part of the People & Body category, specifically within the hand-fingers-partial subcategory.
Common uses
- Indicating something is very small: 'The amount of sugar needed is this much 🤏'
- Expressing insignificance: 'His contribution to the project was 🤏'
- In a playful or sarcastic context: 'I only need a little bit of your time 🤏'
In a message
For the recipe, you only need a pinch of salt 🤏
His effort in the cleanup was almost non-existent 🤏
I just need a tiny bit of help with the presentation 🤏
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What does 🤏🏻 mean?
A hand depicted with the thumb and index finger pinched together, forming a small circle. The hand is typically shown in a light skin tone with a neutral or slightly positive expression. This emoji represents a gesture of pinching or holding something very small, often used to emphasize minuteness or to indicate something is insignificant. It is part of the People & Body category, specifically within the hand-fingers-partial subcategory.
How do I copy Pinching Hand: Light Skin Tone?
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