👋
People & Body
waving hand sign emoji
Raised hand waving — hello or goodbye. One of the most natural greeting emojis, used at the start and end of conversations and to get someone's attention.
Unicode data
| Character | 👋 |
| Codepoint | U+1F44B |
| Unicode name | WAVING HAND SIGN |
| Added in | Unicode 0.6 |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subcategory | hand-fingers-open |
| HTML entity | 👋 |
| Shortcode | :wave: |
Platform support
Apple / iOS✓ Supported
Google / Android✓ Supported
Twitter / X (Twemoji)✓ Supported
Platform designs vary — the same codepoint renders differently on iOS, Android, and web. Twemoji is the open-source reference used on this site (CC BY 4.0).
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