The waving hand: dark skin tone is your universal hi/bye in one smooth motion—friendly, obvious, and impossible to misread. On Apple devices, it’s a right palm tilted slightly, deep brown with soft glossy highlights, fingers snug together, thumb curved out, and those unmistakable little motion lines that scream “wave in progress.” It’s the digital equivalent of catching someone’s eye across the room and doing the quick polite flutter—perfect for sliding into a chat, easing out of one, or saying “I’m here!” without a full speech. People use it to start convos, to end meetings with grace, or to do the awkward “hey… so… anyway” when reappearing after three days of radio silence.
Online, it flexes many moods: flirty opener, wholesome welcome, or a sarcastic “and I’m out” when a thread gets messy. It’s also a favorite for the classic ghosting-comeback joke—drop a single 👋🏿 and a breezy “fell asleep” and pray for forgiveness. On social platforms, it pairs beautifully with 👀 for a “hey, noticed you” vibe, or with ✨ for that sparkly, influencer-style greeting. Choosing the dark skin tone makes the wave feel personal and intentional—representation that looks like you, feels like you, and lands with warmth.
The Waving Hand Sign emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3478 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Black Waving Hand Sign |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44B, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128075, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8B, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 213, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4B, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4b, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56395, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44B 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44B, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128075, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44B\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4B\uD83C\uDFFF" |
