Waving Hand Emoji
What does the Waving Hand emoji mean?
A yellow hand with motion lines that suggest a wave, hence the name. Use it to say hello or goodbye, or, when used sarcastically, to dismiss someone or tell them to go away.
The right-hand emoji is bright yellow with blue rounded lines that suggest motion. The tilted position of the hand and the two pairs of parentheses imitate the sweeping strokes of a wave.
This emoji is commonly used to grab attention ("Hey — Im here!"), to greet someone or to say goodbye. It can also be used in a sarcastic way, as in "Come on, goodbye!"
Also Known As
- 👋 Goodbye
- 👋 Hand Wave
- 👋 Hello
- 👋 Waving
Apple Name
- 👋 Waving Hand
Unicode Name
- 👋 Waving Hand Sign
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Waving Hand emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👋 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F44B
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%8B |
| Punycode | xn--wp8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 8B |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC4B |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f44b |
| CSS | \01F44B |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F44B} |
| Perl | \x{1F44B} |
| HTML hex | 👋 |
| HTML dec | 👋 |
Tags: hand, wave, waving, bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hello, hey, hi, later, outtie, ttfn
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Open hands & waving