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Waving hand

  • hello
  • goodbye
  • hi
  • are you there
  • waving
  • hand
U+1F44B

The waving hand emoji — Unicode name “waving hand” — belongs to the People & Body group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about hello, goodbye and hi. Its positivity score is 80 out of 100, which places it in the Positive range.

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1. Waving hand emoji attributes

Symbol
👋
Name
Waving hand
English name
waving hand
Unicode code point
U+1F44B
HTML entity
👋
Decimal
👋
Category
People & Body›Gestures
Keywords
hello, goodbye, hi, are you there, waving, hand
Download image
Size
Background
512 × 512 PNG · transparent background

2. Waving hand emoji meaning

The waving hand emoji sits in the Gestures subgroup — one of 45 symbols grouped there under People & Body. It is used to refer to hello, goodbye and hi, and the picture itself makes the intention easy to read. Sent on its own it works as a quick reaction; placed inside a sentence it softens the tone.

In everyday chat, the waving hand (👋) usually appears alongside words about hello, goodbye and hi. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.

3. Waving hand emoji sentiment

Positive
80 / 100

Scored 80 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Positive range. It is often used to soften a request without weakening it.

A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.

4. Waving hand emoji examples

  • 1Ask me anything about the project 👋
  • 2Raising my hand for the question 👋
  • 3Two of us are coming 👋

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