U+1F919 "🤙" Call Me Hand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🤙
U+1F919 "🤙" Call Me Hand is a pictographic symbol representing a hand gesture where the thumb and pinky finger are extended while the other fingers are curled down, often called the "shaka" or "hang loose" sign. This emoji is commonly used in digital communication to convey a casual greeting, a request to call someone, or a laid-back, friendly attitude, with strong associations to Hawaiian surf culture and a general sense of relaxation or agreement. Its inclusion in Unicode allows it to be consistently rendered across different platforms and devices, enabling clear nonverbal expression in texts and social media posts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F919 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Call Me Hand |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🤙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🤙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F919 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd19 |