Waving hand emoji ๐
Emoji 0.6 (2010) ยท U+1F44B
Skin tones ยท Tap a tone to copy it.
What ๐ means
Waving hand ๐ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand, hello, hey, hi, later.
Those words also drive emoji search: try bye or cya on your phone to find ๐.
On the emoji keyboard, ๐ sits with the open hands (11 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example ๐ค ๐๏ธ โ ๐.
You can send ๐ in 5 skin tones (๐๐ป to ๐๐ฟ) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will ๐ show on my friend's phone?
๐ has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type ๐
To find ๐ quickly, type waving hand into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type waving hand.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type waving hand in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type waving hand.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees ๐ as one code point, U+1F44B: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F44B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 👋 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 👋 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F44B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F44B} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%91%8B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 8B |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | waving hand |
| Portuguรชs | mรฃo acenando |
| Espaรฑol | mano saludando |
| Italiano | mano che saluta |
| Franรงais | signe de la main |
| Deutsch | winkende Hand |
| Tรผrkรงe | el sallama |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tangan melambai |
| Polski | machajฤ ca dลoล |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ะผะฐัะตั ััะบะพะน |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ๆใๆฏใ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ํ๋๋ ์ |
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All people & body emoji โQuestions people ask
What does the waving hand emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐ "waving hand" and links it with bye, cya, g2g, greetings. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the open hands subgroup of people & body.
When was the waving hand emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
Can I change the skin tone of ๐?
Yes. ๐ has these skin tones: ๐๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ ๐๐พ ๐๐ฟ. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.