Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone emoji mean?
A light-skinned hand with motion lines that make it look like it’s waving. Commonly used to say hello or goodbye, it can also be used dismissively to tell someone to go away.
The waving hand emoji — not the usual yellow, but in a flesh tone. It looks more lifelike because it matches an actual skin shade.
You can send this hand to say goodbye, offer a friendly “hello,” catch someone’s attention, or to shoo someone away (Come on, Bob, get out!).
Unicode Name
- 👋🏻 Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👋🏻 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F44B U+1F3FB
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%8B%F0%9F%8F%BB |
| Punycode | xn--mn8h5e |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 8B F0 9F 8F BB |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC4B\uD83C\uDFFB |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f44b\U0001f3fb |
| CSS | \01F44B \01F3FB |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F44B}\u{1F3FB} |
| Perl | \x{1F44B}\x{1F3FB} |
| HTML hex | 👋🏻 |
| HTML dec | 👋🏻 |
Tags: hand, light skin tone, wave, waving, bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hello, hey, hi, later, outtie
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Open hands & waving