👋 Meaning – Waving Hand Emoji

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The image of a raised hand with lines on each side of it to simulate motion is the emoji symbol for a greeting. Waving Hand Emoji refers to the act of waving your hand to someone in greeting or goodbye. This emoji stands for the expressions “Hello!” or “Good bye!” or “I wish you a good trip/journey!”.

The Waving Hand Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Slap Emoji. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Hello Emoji.

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Waving Hand Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F44B
Unicode name: Waving Hand
Category: Smileys & People / Body
Keywords: hand, wave, waving, body
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F44B
Decimal HTML Entity: 👋
Hex HTML Entity: 👋
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDC4B
Wikipedia: n/a
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

👋 emoji variants

Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone

Waving Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Waving Hand: Medium Skin Tone

Waving Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Waving Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Raised Fist

Hand with Fingers Splayed

Person Raising Hand

Raised Back of Hand

Person Gesturing No

Man and Woman Holding Hands

Person Tipping Hand

Writing Hand

Thumbs Down

Two Women Holding Hands

Two Men Holding Hands

Face with Hand Over Mouth

Love-You Gesture

Person Gesturing Ok

Gloves

🌐 Waving Hand Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	winkende Hand	Hand, Winken
Français	signe de la main	coucou, main
Русский	машет рукой	взмах, привет, приветствие, рука
Español	mano saludando	agitar, mano, saludar, saludo
Italiano	mano che saluta	mano, salutare
Português	mão acenando	aceno, mão
Polski	machająca dłoń

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How to type Waving Hand Emoji

There are number of methods to type Waving Hand Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 👋 emoji

It's very easy to get Waving Hand Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 👋 meaning and look at 👋 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

👋 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.