Call me hand: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture featuring an extended thumb and pinky finger with the middle three fingers curled down, rendered in a medium skin tone. It mimics the shape of a traditional telephone handset held against the ear.

Usage Context

This sign is widely used to signal a request for a phone call or to simply say 'call me.' In surf culture, it is known as the 'shaka' sign, signifying good vibes or relaxation, similar to the chill sentiment expressed by 😎.

History

The gesture originated in Hawaiian surf culture as a friendly greeting. As mobile phones became household items in the 90s, the gesture was recontextualized in North American pop culture as a universal shorthand for telephonic communication, eventually being added to the Unicode standard in 2016.

Details

Glyph

🤙🏽

Unicode

U+1F919 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f919_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD19;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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