Waving hand
Emoji 1.0 ยท People & Body ยท :wave:
Also known as: bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand, hello, hey, hi, later, outtie, ttfn, ttyl, wave, yo, you
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Skin tones
Copy as code
What Waving hand Means
People reach for ๐ when they mean bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Waving hand is one of the people & body emoji, alongside ๐ค ๐๏ธ โ ๐ ๐ซฑ and 5 more in the same family. It supports all five skin tone modifiers, so ๐ can be sent as ๐๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ ๐๐พ ๐๐ฟ.
History & Platforms
Waving hand was added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ is the single code point U+1F44B, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :wave:.
How To Use ๐
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐๐ค๐๏ธ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :wave: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.