Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWhat does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?lemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down114
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 · 1 month agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareCaptPretentious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month 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.
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.