U+1F44B "👋" Waving Hand Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
👋
U+1F44B "👋" Waving Hand Sign is a pictographic representation of a hand with fingers together and palm facing forward, commonly used in digital communication to convey greetings, farewells, or a general sense of acknowledgment. Originating from the Unicode 6.0 standard in 2010 as part of the Emoticons block, this character can be displayed with different skin tone modifiers to represent diverse users. Its widespread adoption across messaging platforms and social media has made it a universal symbol for waving, often replacing or supplementing the text "hello" or "goodbye" in informal conversations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F44B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Waving Hand Sign |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 👋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 👋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F44B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc4b |