👋️ Waving hand emoji

The waving hand emoji means hello, goodbye, greeting, or friendly attention. It is one of the clearest hand emojis for starting a chat, ending a message, or acknowledging someone.

Use 👋 when you want a warm wave instead of a formal greeting. For a stop or high-five gesture, compare ✋ Raised hand.

Could also be called wave, hello hand, goodbye hand or waving emoji.

Other meanings

Hello, goodbye, wave, greeting, farewell, acknowledgement

Example Usage

Hi, I just joined the call 👋

Variants

Related emoji

Hand gestures emojis

• 🤚️ Raised back of hand
• 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed
• ✋️ Raised hand
• 🖖️ Vulcan salute

Visual description

On iOS, this emoji is a yellow hand with fingers spread and small motion marks beside it. At small sizes, it reads as a raised hand waving side to side.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.