What do you call this hand gesture?

The Vulcan Salute. 🖖

Referred to as the "Vulcan Salute," which is based off an Orthodox Jewish blessing. The hand gesture imitates the Hebrew letter "Shin" for El Shaddai. If there is a Hebrew word for the hand gesture, I do not know.

Live long and prosper. It's from Star Trek. It's a Vulcan greeting, which is an alien race in the show's lore.

There's no single English understanding of that gesture, but by far the most common understanding would be "live long and prosper" from Star Trek, which is what Spock says when he does it.

the Spock. People would generally understand IMO

The nanoo nanoo

Live long and prosper.

The Vulcan Pimp Hand

Pussy

I knew some people who master guitar play exercising their fingers that way.

The "I can't do that" 😂

The Vulcan salute from Star Trek. Live long and prosper!

Supa shocka

ninja turtles

“May the force be with you.” -Harry Potter

ברכת הכהנים

Live long and prosper

Unsafe crazy glue usage

The shocker

Nanu Nanu.

Ninja turtle handshake

Ngl I somehow thought this was called the alien hand or something because it looks like an alien hand with 3 fingers. Guess I'm just really wrong.

One of the hand exercises my piano teacher used to make me do when I was a teenager. Then I had to move the ring finger toward the middle finger, or the little finger away from the ring finger, and any possible combination of moving just one finger without moving the others. I'll be damned! I can still do it! Who knew?

"We come in peace"

I would call it the "spock sign" "spock hands" or "the star trek salute" because I don't know anything about Star Trek haha

Spock hand

Middle school….everyone did it back then!

nerd salute

Crab

"Spock hand." The show it's from (Star Trek) probably has an official name for it, but that's what I've always actually called it when it's come up in conversation.

*The Spock thing*

The Spocker

Pop socket hand

"can you separate your fingers like this" hand gesture

rock paper scissors lizard spock

Live long and prosper

Star Trek

Hold that baby up in the USA and say „live long and prosper“ and you’ll be flooded with lovers, friends, and riches beyond belief.

Misusing superglue

Sci-fi or pussy

"I'm Mork from Ork, nanu nanu"

note that ‘vulcan salute’ is the name of this in star trek. it doesn’t have a name in english outside of pop culture.

I grew up calling it the alien

It’s funny everybody is calling it the Vulcan Salute. It’s actually a [Cohenim Blessing, performed by Cohens to bless those before prayer in Temple.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestly_Blessing) Leonard Nimoy, who himself was Jewish, [borrowed the gesture for use in the Star Trek Universe.](https://www.houseofgoodfortune.org/bonheur-blog/did-mr-spock-base-the-vulcan-salute-on-a-jewish-blessing)

Spock in RPSLS

It's an ill-formed Ribbit from Mork's planet

The “can you do this?”

V for Vendetta?

All I am thinking is big daddy v

The Spock

Vulcan Salute. Its also a tiger tooth strike.


Glue accident :D

Spocker

for those that don’t watch star wars, but know it’s from there (aka me) it’d be the “star trek hand/fingers”

If you're playing rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock, then it's Spock. :)

The spock thing lol

Live long and prosper


Spok

Superglue hands!

That’s a Sci-Five

An optimistic shocker

A Vulcan Salute, probably

She calls it "The Spocker." If you know, you know.

Live long and prosper. The Vulcan salute

Two in the pink, two in the stink.

Two in the pink, two in the stink

which route we going with, sci-fi or irl? lol sci-fi: Vulcan salute/wave; often used in conjunction with the phrase "Live long and prosper" irl: a sort of sign language for the Hebrew letter Shin (looks suspiciously like the letter W in English, lol), which is considered a signature for God. It's often used by Rabbis with both hands when they're blessing things, and was repurposed by Leonard Nimoy for his character Spock in Star Trek, which is the aforementioned Vulcan salute. And one of the things that he thought was always entertaining is that after seeing the show, all the fans would go around with that, effectively blessing each other. But the symbol shows up mirrored when using both hands, such that the Rabbi had one facing the person/people he was talking to, to bless them, and one facing himself, to bless him. No clue if it's still practiced to this day though, but it certainly was when Star Trek the original series first aired. Oh, and some of the actors had to prep it ahead of time and leave it until they could get past the scene where they wave it around, cause they had trouble trying to make it and keep it, lol. But now I'm sure everyone's practiced it a few times and can replicate it easily enough xD

Peace, and long life.

You can't do it

"The Spocker."

Super glue fast set 

I know it from Mork and Mindy

'Live long and prosper.'

The beginning of a TMNT handshake!

Nanu nanu

The thing I can't do

i personally think of it as an alien hand like "we come in peace" because i have never seen star trek 💀

The Fm fingering

[Don't you give me that sarcastic Vulcan salute!](https://youtu.be/VnqLFjZD9pg?si=gXr5-mkb-cKqK5dD)

Have you ever tried... This one?!

live long and prosper

"Live long and prosper." I have heard "Vulcan salute" but would never have thought of it on my own.

Turtle high five

Lea! Hi! Lea!

Live Long and Prosper

Bazinga


The "live long and prosper"

Lol as a Jew i call it the priestly blessing gesture 😂

The Spock 🖖🏽

two in the pink two in the stink

The [thing](https://youtu.be/FNEH-M2qmlg?si=OvJBaK_WyuCU5Enf). "Do the thing."

Thats Schere

Na-Nu, Na-Nu

Nanu nanu

Trek...from star Trek next generation ✨️

✂️

ET hand

Peace

I call it "playing with super glue"

I know it's the Vulcan Salute, but I never watched Star Trek so I always called it "Spock Hands"

The pinker stinker double dinker

Double peace sign

I've seen it called the ta'al or something similar in star trek fanfic (yes I read fanfic, idc what you think of it) but I'm not sure where that comes from in the series and as the comments said "Vulcan salute" is much more recognizable.

good alien

The Spock

Two in the pink, two in the stink

Nanu nanu

Live Long and Prosper. Vulcan Salute. Star Trek

Shocker for Trekkies?

The Vulcan Salute. "Live Long and Prosper" 🖖

vulcan salute

Gondor Primulon - Recess

Isn’t that the one in the pi.. oh wait, no.

It's called the Edward Scissor Hand

two in the pink, two in the stink

I used to call it a star track peace salut.

Live long and prosper. Duh.

i call it spock bc im uneducated

I call it The Dog

Nano-Nano….

Hahahaha, so funny! I have never thought about the name of this gesture!


Ta'al

Birkat HaKohanim

I always saw it as how an alien would give a peace sign

The actual autistic hand signal.

“i come in peace” is what ive known it as

🖖🖖🖖

2 in the pink 2 in the stink

Ninja turtle hand

Talon

A Vulcan Salute 🖖

Nano nano (Mork and Mindy)

I call it the spock hand thingy

ברכת הכוהנים

TMNT cosplay lol

Naa- nuu- naa-nuu

LLAP

Live long and prosper.

schere

Schere✂️

Vulcan salute, but the early 2000’s teen in me remembers when Pharrell co-opted it for his trademark hand sign

Spock

Schere

This is called the ta'al in the Vulcan language. Surprised this isn't further up in the comments.

Live long and prosper

The Spocker

the v gesture lol

The Spock block

Live long and prosper....

Nannu nannu?

Turtle Power

The Vulcan Salute

Un Vie 🖖🖖

The dragon claw from One Piece

The "Spocker", a variant of The "Shocker".

That thing lesbians do but times two

Slender man

mr spock

Obi wan Konobi... Pardon the spelling. I have never seen star wars

Well, it originally comes from Hebrew mysticism to represent the letter "shin"...Leonard Nimoy (who was Jewish) would peak when the Konahim would perform this gesture during ceremonies (because you are supposed to be bowed in prayer, not looking at him) and was suitably impressed by it. Later, when a gesture was needed for greeting by Vulcans in Star Trek was needed - and since Vulcans generally don't touch people (for example, by shaking hands) - Nimoy suggested this: the Vulcan Salute. And that is what most sci-fi fans know it by today. The Vulcan Salute.

“Spock” is what most people would recognize it as. I have never heard “Vulcan Salute” in my life (that I can remember).

The Vulcan Salute, or if I don't wanna say all that - the Mr. Spock 😅

I've never seen Star Trek but I know it's from Spock. Honestly I'd suggest avoiding hand gestures since they can be too easily misinterpreted as extremely aggressive or offensive.

I have no idea what it's called (well, now I know it's the Vulcan salute)

Vulcan gesture

The Star Trek one

Two women and one man