1F919 - Call Me Hand
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-9.0/U90-1F900.pdf
This emoji has two meanings:
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the “original” meaning is based on the “shaka sign” from Hawai’ian culture. It’s often paired with the phrase “hang loose”, which generally just means to relax, have a good time, etc.
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When mobile telephones first started to become mainstream, they would often have an antenna that extended up and out of the phone chassis and a receiver that flipped down that you would speak directly into, so people picked up this gesture that mimicked the shape of a cell phone. Pressing it against your cheek with the pinky finger in front of your mouth and the thumb covering the opening of your ear would be accompanied by saying or mouthing “call me” was pretty universally understood and was one way to communicate the desire to speak on the phone from a distance where you could still visually see someone but shouting was ineffective or impractical.
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Directly translated it means “radical broh! let’s smoke some weed.”
The only correct answer in the thread.
It may be Shaka, but in Unicode and emoji it’s “call me” https://emojipedia.org/call-me-hand
The angle of the fingers is all weird. The middle three and the wrist should be pointing up-right, not up.
The one on the GP’s link is a bit better. Maybe even recognizable.
I wonder what system the OP’s one comes from.
Yeah, agreed. I was only looking at the OP’s.
Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.
Of course the fucking Mormons are trying to own it.
Who copied it from the freemasons
Thank you.
This is way more accurate than that urban dictionary.
In Hawaii (depending on where you are) shaka is used all the time. Kinda like waving to someone with a hint of good vibe to it. Also to emphasize “hey that’s cool”. You see it a lot waving thanks to cars, too
To add to this, it’s widely used in Brazil who copied it from surf culture.
China also uses it as part of their one hand counting system. To them it’s the number 6 (pronounced ‘leo’). The use of it in western culture has allowed them to adopt it as a way of saying something is cool. They will say 666 (pronounced “leo leo leo”) while making the hand gesture to say something is cool. This fact was very fun to explain to my ultra conservative family back in the states.
Source: I taught in China for nine years in an international school with a very large Brazilian community.
So, while stereotypical, the surfer sign meaning isn’t far off!
Radical 🤙
Hang ten breh
Is there also a hand signal for when something isn’t good?
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Well, I guess I meant a Hawaiian one. But I suppose that one is universal.
It’s known as the hawaiian good luck sign.
It is not the shaka. It’s the “call me hand” emoji.
It’s not the call me hand, it’s the hang loose emoji!
It’s not the hang loose emoji, it’s the fancy tea party emoji!
Symbol for the hand used like a good old telephone receiver. Thumb is near ones ear, the little finger is near ones mouth. Used here in Germany when land line were used more often to show someone behind a window: I’ll call you (later).
shaka when the walls fell
Temba, his arms wide
Sokath, his eyes open.
Ahh, beat me to it
When the walls fell!
Dude, radical emoji. That’s just a gnarly way of tell someone to hang loose, bro. I’ve usually seen it done left-to-right instead of up-and-down, but the universe is infinite so if you wanna flip it that’s totally copacetic.
Edit: I started thinking about surfers and it dragged up memories of this legend on Tosh.0
It’s good to hang loose? What if stuff falls out?
“Hang loose” is what you tell someone who needs to chill out and let the waves carry them away from their problems man. Align your chakras with the Earth and so on.
Seriously though, the reason I wrote like that is I’m using the slang of roughly 90s/2000s-ish California surfer culture, which is where the hand signal was used to tell people to relax and be happy. Or say hi and let them know you are relaxed and happy. If you imagine it as a gang sign for surfer hippies you aren’t far off.
Hang Loose (both gesture and phrase) goes back to at LEAST the early '70s.
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I’m starting to think you’re not here in good faith.
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Didn’t like tosh.o much, but this one is pretty great
The amount of people that dont know about shakas is killing me. No culture
Why ? The sign has different meaning in different cultures. It is just your ignorance of anything outside your bubble.
I knew it meant “hang loose”, but I’ve never heard the term.
Known it as hang loose since the 80’s from Hawaii
Since the 80s in Oklahoma for me. My dad’s generation came up with this. Thought it was common knowledge.
Dont need to have heard the term. Just need to know it’s rough meaning. Some people really think it means “call me” which while a valid interpretation also messes with its actual meaning
Get off your high horse lol. It’s literally called the call me hand in the official Unicode emoji specs. Not everything has to relate to the USA, friend.
That said, feel free to interpret it as the shaka with your friends. No need to foist that on the rest of us.
Bold of you to assume I live in the USA. Consider that this is a very well known symbol in more island nations than just Hawaii. Unicode is allowed name things wrong and they very often do. It’s ultimately the proposal to the Unicode consortium that names the emoji.
Take it to mean whatever you want but saying that shakas is a purely US thing is insulting to it. Think about how long the telephone has existed in comparison to islanders…
Way way more people use the Shaka to mean Shaka as opposed to call me. If you use that symbol to mean call me, I can’t really help you, but I’ve never actually seen that in real life after like 1995.
Unicode naming can be wrong (and it is here) and that’s ok.
Aging yourself, mate
Shaka brah
What’s that mean?
Check the urban dictionary link that Kokolores posted, that’s your answer! :D
Hang ten.
Some cultures have a way of counting to ten on one hand. This represents six in one version of that system.
Ask genx
Thank you.
Isn’t it a surfer thing? Like hang ten, radical, man.
