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What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?
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Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign
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
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.
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.
Fascinating. I wonder how the millions of Chinese Catholics feel about this use.
Catholics are diverse, I suppose the Chinese ones might not be into the Apocalypse stuff that much, not everyone is. I don't really know, though, could be interesting.
So, while stereotypical, the surfer sign meaning isn't far off!
Radical 🤙
Hang ten breh
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.