Waving Hand emoji
Type :wave: · #100 most-used emoji · People & body
Unicode name Waving Hand · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 👋 means
The wave: hello, welcome, goodbye and "gentle bump" all at once. ":wave: just following up" softens any nudge.
How to type 👋 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :wave
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 👋 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:wave: :waving_hand: Search terms
Also found by searching bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand.
Skin tones for 👋
Waving Hand comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 👋 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 👋🏻 light 👋🏼 medium-light 👋🏽 medium 👋🏾 medium-dark 👋🏿 dark 👋 in HTML, CSS and code
Waving Hand is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F44B
- HTML
- 👋
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F44B}'
- CSS content
- "\1F44B"
- Python
- '\U0001F44B'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%91%8B
Related emojis
:love_you_gesture: 🫵 :point_forward: 👊 :punch: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: 🫴 :palm_up: 👌 :ok_hand: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
Tired of copying 👋 from pages like this one?
That is exactly what the extension removes. Here is the whole interaction, in every text field you already use:
You type
You get
Your keyboard already knows what you mean
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