🤌Fingertips pinched gesture

🤌 Pinched fingers

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🤌 Emoji meaning

What do you want? Displeasure, desire, request, impatience.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Variants
  4.  Emoji History
  5.  Similar Emojis
  6.  Platforms
  7.  Emoji Details
  8.  Comments

🤌 Meaning

What do you want?! “Ma che vuoi” is one of the most famous gestures in Italy. Universally applicable when someone asks for something or when you wish for something yourself. The more often the gesture is used, the more impatient or frustrated the other person is.

Examples

  • Are you coming or what? 🤌
  • Just give it to me already! 🤌
  • Seriously, this is ridiculous. 🤌

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Pinched fingers
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Pinching hand

Pinched fingers vs pinching hand; both use fingers pressed together, meaning small or precise amount.

Pinched fingers
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Hand with index finger and thumb crossed

Hand with index and thumb crossed vs pinched fingers; both used for money or small amounts, finger posture is similar.

Variants

Skin tones
Pinched fingers
Pinched fingers: light skin tone
Pinched fingers: medium-light skin tone
Pinched fingers: medium skin tone
Pinched fingers: medium-dark skin tone
Pinched fingers: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Pinched fingers” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ gesture + hand + hold + huh + patience + relax + ugh + what + zip

Keywords removed

- hand gesture

In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ fingers + hand gesture + interrogation + pinched + sarcastic

Similar emojis from "Hands and Body Parts"

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Hands and Body Parts
👋 Waving hand 🤚 Raised back of hand 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed ✋ Raised hand 🖖 Vulcan salute 🫱 Rightwards hand 🫲 Leftwards hand 🫴 Palm up hand 🫳 Palm down hand 🫷 Leftwards pushing hand 🫸 Rightwards pushing hand 👌 OK hand 🤌 Pinched fingers 🤏 Pinching hand ✌️ Victory hand 🤞 Crossed fingers 🫰 Hand with index finger and thumb crossed 🤟 Love-you gesture 🤘 Sign of the horns 🤙 Call me hand 👈 Backhand index pointing left 👉 Backhand index pointing right 👆 Backhand index pointing up 🖕 Middle finger 👇 Backhand index pointing down ☝️ Index pointing up 🫵 Index pointing at the viewer 👍 Thumbs up 👎 Thumbs down 👊 Oncoming fist ✊ Raised fist 🤛 Left-facing fist 🤜 Right-facing fist 👏 Clapping hands 🙌 Raising hands 🫶 Heart hands 👐 Open hands 🤲 Palms up together 🤝 Handshake 🙏 Folded hands ✍️ Writing hand 💅 Nail polish 🤳 Selfie 💪 Flexed biceps 🦾 Mechanical arm 🦿 Mechanical leg 🦵 Leg 🦶 Foot 👂 Ear 🦻 Ear with hearing aid 👃 Nose 🧠 Brain 🫀 Anatomical heart 🫁 Lungs 🦷 Tooth 🦴 Bone 👀 Eyes 👁️ Eye 👅 Tongue 👄 Mouth 🫦 Biting lip 👣 Footprints 🫆 Fingerprint 🧬 Dna 🩸 Drop of blood
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Comments

(11) Comments

  • Used when you are confused.

  • In the Middle East, often used instead of 'wait' or when telling someone to be patient. 🤌🏾

  • In ancient times, in Indian palaces, this hand was placed on the head to show respect.

  • In South Africa, this emoji is used to describe something small, like a pinch of salt. In other contexts, it can be used to insult someone and belittle them.

  • Chef’s kiss!

  • My Italian dad used to say, "What's the matter with you?" while making this gesture, often with a slight shake of the hand.

  • This is so beautiful!