Waving hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A human hand with dark skin tone, fingers held together and slightly fanned out as if in a rhythmic side-to-side motion. It depicts a standard gesture used for starting or ending a social interaction.

Usage Context

This is the go-to signal for saying hello or goodbye in text messages. It is frequently used to sign off from a conversation, especially when using slang like 👋 or when signaling that you are heading out for the day.

History

While the basic hand emoji has been around since the early days of digital communication, the ability to modify skin tones arrived in 2015 with Unicode 8.0. This update was a major shift in how messaging platforms handled identity, allowing users to better reflect their appearance in digital greetings.

Details

Glyph

👋🏿

Unicode

U+1F44B U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44b_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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