👋
Skin tone
waving hand Emoji
👋 waving hand: copy and paste this emoji, see its Unicode codepoint, pick a skin tone, and find related emoji in the People & Body category.
- Unicode codepoint
- U+1F44B
- Category
- People & Body
- Introduced in
- Emoji version 0.6 (2010)
- Skin tones
- Supported (see picker)
- Gender forms
- Not applicable
Also known as
bye cya g2g greetings gtg hand hello hey hi later outtie ttfn ttyl wave yo you
How it looks on your device
The glyph above is rendered by your own operating system or browser, so it may look slightly different on Windows, Android or iOS - that's normal, each platform ships its own emoji artwork for the same underlying character.
What it means
A waving hand: hello or goodbye. Friendly, simple, and standard in introductions ("Hi everyone 👋") and sign-offs.
How people use it
- Greeting someone or a group
- Saying goodbye
- Introducing yourself in a new channel
Examples
- hi all 👋
- bye for now 👋
- new here, hello 👋
Good to know
In China the same gesture can mean "goodbye forever" / ending a friendship. Supports skin tone modifiers.
Shortcodes
Type one of these (including the colons) to insert the emoji on that platform.
- GitHub
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:wave: - Slack
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:wave:
In other languages
- Nederlands
- zwaaiende hand
- Deutsch
- winkende Hand
- Français
- signe de la main
- Español
- mano saludando