🤙 Call Me Hand

🤙 Call Me Hand is one of the partial finger gestures in Unicode's People & Body group. People send it when the subject is call, hand, hang and loose. The keyword list continues with me and shaka.

🤙 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. It joined the standard with Emoji 3.0 in 2016, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F919. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• 🤙 works as a one-character reply when call is the subject.
• Fits messages about call, hand, hang and loose.
• Often seen near 🤘🏻 Sign of the Horns: Light Skin Tone, 🤙🏻 Call Me Hand: Light Skin Tone and 🤘 Sign of the Horns.

The shaka comes from Hawaii, where it signals a relaxed, friendly attitude – “take it easy”. Surf culture carried it around the world from the 1960s onwards. In parts of South America, especially Brazil, the same hand simply means “let’s have a drink”, because it suggests a bottle at the mouth. In chat it is increasingly used as “call me”, even though that was never its Unicode intent.

• 🤙✌️ – Call Me Hand and Victory Hand
• 🤙🤟 – Call Me Hand with Love-You Gesture
• 🤙🤘 – Call Me Hand plus Sign of the Horns
• 🤙🫰 – Call Me Hand and Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed
• 🤙🤞 – Call Me Hand with Crossed Fingers

Easy to mix up with 🤘🏻 Sign of the Horns: Light Skin Tone, 🤙🏻 Call Me Hand: Light Skin Tone or 🤘 Sign of the Horns. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.