Waving hand

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Shortcode: :wave:
Shortcode: :waving_hand:
Unicode: U+1F44B
HTML: 👋
CSS: \1F44B
JavaScript: "\u{1F44B}"
URL: %F0%9F%91%8B

bye cya g2g greetings gtg hand hello hey hi later outtie ttfn ttyl wave yo you

What 👋 means

A wave for hello or goodbye. 👋 is a friendly greeting, a sign-off, or a way to say "hey, over here."

Open a message to a new contact with it, or close a chat with "bye 👋." Teams use it to welcome new members.

A lone 👋 at the end of an argument can read as a cold dismissal, and some younger users find it passive-aggressive.

Facts

Waving hand 👋 is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand fingers open. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :wave: or :waving_hand:. People also look for it with words like “bye”, “cya”, “g2g”, or “greetings”.