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👋Waving Hand Emoji
👋 is the waving hand emoji, U+1F44B, one of 11 in the Fingers Open set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for bye, cya and g2g.
What 👋 waving hand means
Greetings, stopping someone, and offering something. 👋 opens and closes conversations; ✋ can mean stop, high five, or raising a hand to speak. 🖖 is the Vulcan salute from Star Trek, which Unicode formally names 'raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers'. The directional 🫱 and 🫲 arrived in 2021 so handshakes could mix two skin tones.
Unicode tags this one bye, cya and g2g and files it under People & Body → Fingers Open.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F44B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👋 | |
| HTML decimal | 👋 | |
| CSS | \1F44B | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F44B} | |
| Python | \U0001F44B | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC4B | |
| Rust | \u{1f44b} | |
| Swift | \u{1F44B} | |
| PHP | \u{1F44B} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%8B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 8B | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC4B | |
| Base64 | 8J+Riw== | |
| Decimal | 128075 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 👋 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 👋
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “waving hand”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bye”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f44band Enter. - HTML — paste
👋.
How 👋 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 👋Apple
- 👋Segoe
- 👋Noto
- 👋System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 👋 waving hand emoji mean?+
👋 is the waving hand emoji, tagged bye, cya and g2g. Greetings, stopping someone, and offering something. 👋 opens and closes conversations; ✋ can mean stop, high five, or raising a hand to speak. 🖖 is the Vulcan salute from Star Trek, which Unicode formally names 'raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers'. The directional 🫱 and 🫲 arrived in 2021 so handshakes could mix two skin tones.
What is the Unicode code for 👋?+
waving hand is U+1F44B. In HTML that is 👋, in CSS \1F44B, and in JavaScript \u{1F44B}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👋 emoji added?+
waving hand got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Fingers Open in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👋 waving hand.