Waving Hand Emoji
Copy 👋 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 👋 mean?
An open hand waving. Hello or goodbye.
👋 is the waving hand emoji. It belongs to the People & Body group, in the hand fingers open set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand, hello, hey, hi, later.
How to use 👋
Standard greeting in chat and the conventional way to introduce yourself in a new Slack channel. Also used to end a conversation.
Click the copy button above to put 👋 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :wave: directly.
Good to know
A raised open palm means “stop” or is outright offensive in Greece, where it is called the moutza. Worth knowing before using it as a greeting.
Skin tone variants
Waving Hand supports 5 skin tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Technical details
| Name | Waving Hand |
|---|---|
| Character | 👋 |
| Codepoint | U+1F44B |
| HTML entity | 👋 |
| CSS code | \1F44B |
| Shortcode | :wave: |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subgroup | hand fingers open |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand, hello, hey, hi, later, outtie, ttfn, ttyl, wave, yo, you |