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👋🏽” meaning: waving hand: medium skin tone Emoji

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👋🏽Meaning and Description

The "Waving Hand" emoji (👋🏽) is a pictographic representation of a human hand waving, typically used to signal greetings, goodbyes, or to acknowledge someone's presence. This emoji features an open hand with fingers spread apart and some curved motion lines, usually appearing in a skin-tone color with variations to accommodate user preferences. While the general design is consistent across platforms, some differences may be observed, such as in the shape, the curve of the fingers, and the thickness of the motion line.

People frequently use it to initiate conversations, as well as to end them on a positive note. On social media platforms like Twitter, users may include the emoji in their posts or replies to acknowledge others or to draw attention to a specific point. The emoji also sees widespread use in more playful contexts, such as when users jokingly "wave" at a friend they haven't spoken to in a while, or when they acknowledge a situation that they're stepping away from. Common usages include greeting someone (e.g., "Hey 👋🏽"), bidding farewell (e.g., "Goodbye 👋🏽"), or acknowledging a message (e.g., "Thanks for the info 👋🏽").

The historical and cultural significance of the "Waving Hand" emoji lies in its representation of a universal gesture used to communicate greetings or farewells across various cultures. As part of the broader emoji language, it helps convey non-verbal cues in digital communication, offering a warm and approachable tone to messages. The image of the waving hand is deeply rooted in human social interaction, as the act of waving has been a way to communicate from a distance throughout history.
💡Extended reading and popular science

👋🏽 (waving hand: medium skin tone) = 👋 (waving hand) + 🏽 (medium skin tone)


The meaning of emoji symbol 👋🏽 is waving hand: medium skin tone, it is related to hand, medium skin tone, wave, waving, it can be found in emoji category: "👌 People & Body" - "🖐 Open Hand".

👋🏽 is an Emoji modifier sequence, which is composed of two emojis, namely: 👋 (Emoji modifier base) and 🏽 (Emoji modifier). There are 5 types of skin tone Emoji modifiers, namely: 🏻, 🏼, 🏽, 🏾, 🏿. 👋 can be combined with these skin tone Emoji modifiers to form a new Emoji sequence, the following are examples of the combination:

👋🏽Examples and Usage

🔸 See you my friend👋🏽.
🔸 He talks loudly and fast, and waves his hands👋🏽 about a lot when he gets excited.
🔸 👋🏽 = 👋 + 🏽

👋🏽Basic Information

Emoji: 👋🏽
Shortname: waving hand: medium skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F44B 1F3FD Copy
Decimal: ALT+128075 ALT+127997
Unicode Version: None
Emoji Version: 2.0 (2015-11-12)
Categories: 👌 People & Body
Sub Categories: 🖐 Open Hand
Keywords: hand | medium skin tone | wave | waving
Proposal: L2/07‑257, L2/09‑026, L2/14‑173

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