Recently, I've started to notice the hang loose hand symbol, and its emoji — also known as the "call me hand" emoji, better recognized as the shaka sign — all over my digital and physical worlds.

As the emoji library continues to expand with updates ... Emojipedia describes this as the “call me” hand, which makes sense. But it seems that you’ll more often see this used as a shaka ...

The "Harambe" emoji is joined by one to signify a shrug, an extended arm for a selfie, crossed fingers, the “call me” hand, a fist bump, and raised back of hand. There are also new face emoji ...

Those emoji were submitted to the Unicode Consortium ... hand with index and middle fingers crossed, call me hand, handshake, gorilla, deer, rhinoceros, bat, eagle, duck, owl, lizard, shark ...

Next year there is another large set of emoji coming—you can get a tentative list here. It includes the “call me” hand, so you can simulate making a call circa 2001. But the biggest ...

From happy faces to animals and objects, this list provides detailed explanations for a wide range of emoji symbols. Emojis are visual icons that depict human emotions, living creatures ...

But we'll call it "talk to the hand," and use it whenever someone says something dumb on the internet. Which almost never happens. According to Emojipedia, this year has been quite emoji-scarce ...