🤌️ Pinched fingers emoji
HTML
🤌
Unicode
U+1F90C
What is 🤌️ called?
🤌️ is called the Pinched fingers emoji.
Commonly called the Italian hand gesture, chef’s-kiss hand, or pinched hand. “Ma che vuoi?” names one familiar Italian interpretation: “What do you want?”
What does 🤌️ mean?
🤌 shows all fingertips gathered together and is strongly associated with the expressive Italian hand gesture often understood as “What do you want?” or “What are you saying?” It can convey disbelief, frustration, emphasis, patience, or a demand for explanation.
Online it also acts as shorthand for “chef’s kiss” and something judged perfect, especially food. Meanings differ across cultures, so it is not exclusively Italian and does not always signal praise.
Other meanings
“Ma che vuoi?”, what do you mean, exasperation, wait or patience, strong emphasis, chef’s-kiss approval, food praise, or holding a small cluster.
Example Usage
What exactly are you trying to say? 🤌
That fresh pasta was perfect 🤌
More details
Officially named pinched fingers. Its code point is U+1F90C, introduced in Emoji 13.0. It supports skin-tone modifiers, and cultural context can shift its meaning from questioning to praise.
Variants
Related emoji
Hand gestures emojis
Visual description
A hand held upright with thumb and all four fingertips touching in a tight upward-pointing cluster.
The joined fingertips distinguish it from 🤏 Pinching hand, which leaves a visible gap between only the thumb and index finger. Five skin-tone variants are supported.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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