Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoWhat does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?lemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down115
arrow-up1138arrow-down1imageWhat does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?lemmy.sdf.orgDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squareBananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down14·edit-213 days agoIt is not the shaka. It’s the “call me hand” emoji.
minus-squareChee_Koala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down2·13 days agoIt’s not the call me hand, it’s the hang loose emoji!
minus-squarerobdor@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·13 days agoIt’s not the hang loose emoji, it’s the fancy tea party emoji!
minus-squareCaptPretentious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 days agohttps://emojipedia.org/call-me-hand#designs It is in fact, the call me hand from iOS In Unicode 9, it’s label is ‘call me hand’ I get that it is the exact same symbol as other things. However, officially as an emoji it is recognized as ‘call me hand’. My guess is to why is to not recognize any particular nation. Because the hand gesture isn’t just Shaka, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_number_gestures?wprov=sfla1 see number six. Or see ASL, the letter Y.
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!
https://emojipedia.org/call-me-hand#designs
It is in fact, the call me hand from iOS
In Unicode 9, it’s label is ‘call me hand’
I get that it is the exact same symbol as other things. However, officially as an emoji it is recognized as ‘call me hand’.
My guess is to why is to not recognize any particular nation. Because the hand gesture isn’t just Shaka, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_number_gestures?wprov=sfla1 see number six.
Or see ASL, the letter Y.