A friendly palm pops up like, “Hey bestie!”—that’s the waving hand with a medium-light skin tone, the universal sign for hello, goodbye, or that slightly awkward “I’m here!” in a group chat. It’s the digital equivalent of catching someone’s eye across the room and giving a quick wave—warm, approachable, and a tiny bit dorky in the best way. People use it to start convos, sign off at the end of a thread, slide into DMs with low-pressure vibes, or drop a playful “bye Felicia” when leaving a chaotic comment section. It can also do sarcasm duty: a single wave after someone ghosts you is peak spicy politeness.
On Apple/iOS, the hand looks softly 3D with gentle gradients, a peachy-tan tone matching the medium‑light modifier (Fitzpatrick Type 3), and five rounded fingers splayed open. The thumb sits to the side, the palm faces you, and subtle motion lines arc nearby to sell that “actually waving” moment. The glossy shading between the fingers and slightly tilted angle make it feel lively—almost like it’s catching light mid-gesture. Culturally, it shows up in Slack and Teams intros, “I’m new here” posts, and dramatic exits on TikTok captions; pair it with “hello there” for an instant Obi‑Wan meme nod, or drop it in a chat like a polite curtain close after a mic-drop.
The Waving Hand Sign emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1998 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Light Brown 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44B, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128075, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8B, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 213, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4B, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4b, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56395, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44B 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44B, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128075, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44B\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4B\uD83C\uDFFC" |
