The waving hand: medium-dark skin tone is your friendly, low-stakes “hey!” that works from the group chat to the comments section—like making eye contact across a crowded timeline and doing the polite nod but with fingers. It’s perfect for a cheerful hello, a breezy bye, or the classic drive-by greeting when you’re not ready for a full conversation but still want to be seen. People drop it to soft-launch a DM, reappear after a ghosting era with humility, or give that polite “I’m heading out” energy without a dramatic exit monologue. Used sarcastically, it can scream “bye forever” or “blocked, but make it cordial.”
On Apple/iOS, this emoji is a right hand with a warm medium-dark brown gradient, palm-forward and fingers splayed, rendered with soft 3D shading over the knuckles and palm. Subtle curved motion lines near the fingertips and wrist sell the wave, and there’s no cuff or extra accessory—just a clean, realistic hand that feels crisp on light or dark backgrounds. You’ll recognize the neutral pose instantly: friendly, open, and a little animated without going full cartoon.
Culturally, it channels everything from the classic royal wave to the courteous parking-lot “thanks” gesture. Meme-wise, it covers “hello from the other side” energy, “Ight, I’mma head out” vibes, and the ever-necessary awkward Zoom sign-off when five people say “bye” in different time zones. The medium-dark skin tone (Fitzpatrick Type 4) adds inclusive representation, letting you wave in a shade that feels like you.
The Waving Hand Sign emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3477 of 2393 |
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| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown Waving Hand Sign |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👋🏾 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👋🏾 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👋 🏾 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👋 🏾 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f44b, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44B, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128075, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8B, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 213, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4B, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4b, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56395, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44B 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44B, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128075, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44B\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4B\uD83C\uDFFE" |
