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👋 Waving Hand Sign
Also known as: Goodbye, Hand Wave, Hello, Waving
Unicode: U+1F44B
Description
A hand waving most commonly used to say “hello” or “goodbye”. This emoji can be used to convey a sense of not being friends any more when used on WeChat in China.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
handwavewaving
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
---|---|---|
Emojipedia | :waving_hand: | |
GitHub | :wave: | |
Slack | :wave: | |
Discord | :wave: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Hand symbols
Definition:
A hand waving to say “hello” or “goodbye”. Waving Hand was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Waving Hand Sign” and add http://emojipedia.org/waving-hand-sign/
Adjectives:
- Characteristic of or befitting a friend
Verbs:
- To greet with "hello".
- To bid farewell or say goodbye
- To express something by a gesture or gestures.
- To say or express through gestures.
- Show, express or direct through movement
- To show, express or direct through movements.
- To express through gestures.
- Give a spanking to; subject to a spanking
- To give a spanking to; to subject to a spanking.
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- Signal with the hands or nod
- To signal with a waving movement.
Nouns:
- An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone.
- Said to wish a fond farewell; goodbye.
- An utterance of goodbye.
- A farewell remark
- A parting statement; used when one or more people in a situation, dialogue or location are leaving, while others remain.
- The inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers
- The thenar eminence refers to the group of muscles on the palm of the human hand at the base of the thumb.
- The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.
- Inner, concave part of hand.
- Most fleshy portion of the palm of the human hand, located adjacent to the second joint of the thumb
- The palm of the hand or sole of the foot
- That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in primates (including humans).