Call me hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture featuring the thumb and pinky finger extended while the index, middle, and ring fingers are curled toward the palm, rendered in a medium-light skin tone.

Usage Context

Widely used to signal a request for a phone call or as a friendly, relaxed greeting associated with surf culture. It is frequently sent to indicate that someone is busy but will reach out later, or to represent the 'hang loose' attitude often paired with 😎 or 🤙.

History

This gesture, formally known as the shaka sign, originated in Hawaii and became a global shorthand for surfing and laid-back living. It was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the expansion of skin-tone modifiers to make digital communication more expressive and inclusive.

Details

Glyph

🤙🏼

Unicode

U+1F919 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f919_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD19;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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