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waving hand

A waving hand

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Code points: U+1F44B
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Meaning

An open hand waving — hello, goodbye, or getting attention.

Waving hand — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

In conversation

Friendly opener or closer. Also used ironically for 'bye' when someone is about to do something foolish.

Tone

Friendly and casual.

Common uses

greetings
goodbyes
getting attention
ironic farewells

Watch out

In group chats, a wave often signals departure from the conversation.

Examples

hey everyone 👋
bye! 👋
hiiii 👋
hello from the other side 👋

Also known as

waving handhellogoodbyehi emoji

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Used in combos

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awkward goodbye

Related collections

Awkward8 Funny278

Emoji names around the world

English: waving handالعربية تلويح باليد español mano saludando português mão acenando हिन्दी हाथ हिलाना Indonesia tangan melambai

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

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Quick facts

Code points: U+1F44B
Unicode name: waving hand
Category: People & BodyOpen hand fingers
Unicode: 6.0 · 2010Emoji 0.6Unicode history
Skin tones: See all
Keywords: bye cya g2g greetings gtg hand hello hey hi later outtie ttfn ttyl wave

Developer

Single code point

Unicode data

Code pointsU+1F44B

Unicode namewaving hand

UTF-8F0 9F 91 8B

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):waving_hand:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)👋

HTML (decimal)👋

CSS\1F44B

Languages

JavaScript\u{1F44B}

Python\U0001F44B

Perl\x{1F44B}

PHP / Ruby\u{1F44B}

Encodings

Punycodexn--wp8h

URL escape code%F0%9F%91%8B

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Noto Emoji — Licenses & attribution — **Noto Emoji**Google Fonts · SIL OFL 1.1

Twemoji — Licenses & attribution — **Twemoji**Twemoji project · CC BY 4.0

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Frequently asked

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