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👋 Waving Hand Emoji

The 👋 Waving Hand emoji represents saying hello, saying goodbye, friendly greetings, or grabbing someone's attention.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Waving Hand
Category
People & Body
Subcategory
Hand Fingers Open
Unicode
U+1F44B
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The 👋 Waving Hand emoji is the universal digital sign for greetings and farewells. People send it to say hello when starting a chat, sign off warm goodbyes at the end of a conversation, or wave to introduce themselves in group channels. It conveys an open, friendly, and accessible tone across all messaging platforms.

Tone
FriendlyWelcomingCourteousCasual
Quick Meaning

The 👋 Waving Hand emoji represents saying hello, saying goodbye, friendly greetings, or grabbing someone's attention.

Use Cases

How People Use 👋

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Saying hello at the start of a message or chat thread

Saying hello at the start of a message or chat thread.

Signing off with a friendly goodbye

Signing off with a friendly goodbye.

Introducing yourself in a new group or community channel

Introducing yourself in a new group or community channel.

Acknowledging someone's arrival or presence

Acknowledging someone's arrival or presence.

Real Messages

👋 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 👋.

“Hey everyone! 👋 Glad to join the team”

“Gotta run for now, talk to you later 👋”

“Just wanted to say hi 👋”

“Welcome to the group chat 👋”

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Lookup Data

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Official Name

Waving Hand

Subcategory: Hand Fingers Open

Aliases & Common Names

  • wave
  • waving
  • hello hand
  • goodbye hand

Keywords & Search Terms

  • waving hand
  • wave
  • hello
  • hi
  • goodbye
  • hand
  • greeting
  • welcome
  • farewell
Developer Reference

👋 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F44B
Code points
U+1F44B
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8B
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDC4B
HTML decimal entity
👋
HTML hexadecimal entity
👋
JavaScript escape
\u{1F44B}
CSS escape
\1F44B
Python string
\U0001F44B
Variations

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Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Waving Hand emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Waving Hand emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Waving Hand emoji in OpenMoji style

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The 👋 Waving Hand emoji represents saying hello, saying goodbye, friendly greetings, or grabbing someone's attention.