It is not the shaka. It’s the “call me sign” emoji.
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CubitOom@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Its the Shaka, Hawaii’s official state hand gesture.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not the call me hand, it’s the hang loose emoji!
robdor@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
It’s not the hang loose emoji, it’s the fancy tea party emoji!
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_number_gestures?wpr… see number six.
Or see ASL, the letter Y.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Thank you.
BossDj@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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
TheCannonball@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Fascinating. I wonder how the millions of Chinese Catholics feel about this use.
Randelung@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So, while stereotypical, the surfer sign meaning isn’t far off!
Radical 🤙
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Hang ten breh
curiousaur@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Of course the fucking Mormons are trying to own it.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Who copied it from the freemasons