U+1F44B "👋" Waving Hand Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
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
Name
Waving Hand Sign
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common