The waving hand: light skin tone is the internet’s universal hello-goodbye—your friendly ping when sliding into a chat or Irish-exiting a group thread. It does cheerful hellos, polite sign‑offs, and the classic “I see you” acknowledgment without committing to a whole conversation. In meme-speak, it moonlights as the “Bye Felicia” or “I said what I said, now I’m leaving” reaction, perfect after dropping a spicy take. It can be flirty as a soft opener in DMs, awkward when you mis-time it in real life, or supportive when you’re welcoming a newcomer to Slack. Think neighbor-across-the-street energy or that quick wave when you spot your friend in a crowded hallway.
The Waving Hand Sign emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2071 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 |
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| Previous Names: | White 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, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44B, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128075, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8B, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 213, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4B, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4b, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56395, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44B 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44B, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128075, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44B\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4B\uD83C\uDFFB" |
