Waving Hand Emoji 👋
Emoji Meaning
A waving hand. It can depict both salute and goodbye.
The symbol “Waving Hand” is included in the “Hand symbols” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Open Hand with Fingers” subcategory of the “People & Body” category.
Synonyms
goodbye, hand wave, hello, waving.
| Unicode Name | Waving Hand Sign |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Subblock | Hand symbols |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | People & Body |
| Emoji Subcategory | Open Hand with Fingers |
| Emoji Name | Waving Hand |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F44B |
| Simple case change | 1F44B |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 91 8B | 240 159 145 139 | 4036989323 | 11110000 10011111 10010001 10001011 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3D DC 4B | 216 61 220 75 | 3627932747 | 11011000 00111101 11011100 01001011 |
| UTF-16LE | 3D D8 4B DC | 61 216 75 220 | 1037585372 | 00111101 11011000 01001011 11011100 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F4 4B | 0 1 244 75 | 128075 | 00000000 00000001 11110100 01001011 |
| UTF-32LE | 4B F4 01 00 | 75 244 1 0 | 1274282240 | 01001011 11110100 00000001 00000000 |
