👋🏻
What 👋🏻 means
👋🏻 is the Waving Hand emoji with the light skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
A yellow palm with two little vibrating waves on either side, representing the action of waving. This emoji signifies greeting someone, like saying 'Hi', 'What's up', 'Long time no see!', etc.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hand-fingers-open
- Codepoints
U+1F44B U+1F3FB- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:wave_tone1:Discord- Keywords
- bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand, hello, hey, hi, later, light skin tone, outtie, ttfn, ttyl, wave, yo, you
- Variant of
- 👋 waving hand · how tone modifiers work
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👋🏻 Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone or 🔽 Downwards Button?