The waving hand: medium skin tone emoji is your digital โhey!โ and โokay, bye!โ rolled into one friendly flourish. Itโs perfect for sliding into a chat without overthinking, or ghosting out of a chaotic group thread with polite main-character energy. People use it for cheerful hellos, playful flirts, dramatic exits, and that awkward hello you send when you forgot to text back for three business weeks.
On Apple/iOS, itโs a right hand with a warm tan-brown tone, palm facing forward, fingers slightly splayed, thumb relaxed, and those curved motion lines that scream mid-wave. The style is smooth and glossy with soft shading, like a tiny 3D hand doing a gentle โhi thereโ from a slight angle. No rings, no extrasโjust a clean, welcoming palm you can spot instantly in a sea of bubbles.
Online, it doubles as a โdrive-byโ greeting, a sarcastic bye when the tea gets too hot, or the classic Zoom sign-off when youโre already halfway to the Leave Meeting button. Paired with eyes (๐) it can read as โI see you,โ and with a door (๐ช) itโs โIโm out.โ It also shows up in comment sections as a friendly wave to new followers, a cheeky unghosting opener, or that meme-y โwaving through a windowโ vibe for lurking-but-present energy.
The Waving Hand Sign emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3476 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: | Olive Toned Waving Hand Sign |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ฝ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ฝ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👋 🏽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👋 🏽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f44b, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44B, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128075, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8B, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 213, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4B, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4b, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56395, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44B 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44B, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128075, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44B\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4B\uD83C\uDFFD" |
