Copy the most used wave and hand gesture emojis in one click — 👋 🤚 🖐️ ✋ 🖖 👌 🤌 🤏 ✌️ 🤞 🤙 👍 🙌 👏 — with their meaning, Unicode and HTML codes, and keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android.
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Wave and hand gesture emojis cover greetings, hand signs, body expressions and universal cultural gestures. Click any emoji to copy it instantly.
Each hand emoji expresses a precise gesture — greeting, approval, cultural sign or body expression. The definitions reflect common usage on WhatsApp and in digital conversations.
Wave emoji sequences ready to copy and paste to greet, approve or express your gestures in your digital messages.
Technical codes for each wave emoji: Unicode code point and HTML entity for use in web development.
| Emoji | Name | Unicode | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waving hand |
U+1F44B
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👋
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| Raised back of hand |
U+1F91A
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🤚
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| Fingers splayed |
U+1F590
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🖐
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| Raised hand |
U+270B
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✋
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| Vulcan salute |
U+1F596
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🖖
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| OK hand |
U+1F44C
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👌
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| Pinched fingers |
U+1F90C
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🤌
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| Pinching hand tiny |
U+1F90F
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🤏
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| Victory peace V |
U+270C
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✌
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| Crossed fingers |
U+1F91E
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🤞
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| Shaka call me |
U+1F919
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🤙
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| Thumbs up like |
U+1F44D
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👍
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| Raising hands praise |
U+1F64C
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🙌
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| Clapping hands |
U+1F44F
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👏
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| Rightwards hand |
U+1FAF1
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🫱
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The 👋 emoji (U+1F44B, "Waving Hand") represents the hand making a greeting gesture — the universal hello and goodbye gesture. It is one of the most used emojis to open or close a digital conversation. It accompanies introductions ("hello, I'm new here 👋"), group messages to attract attention or warm farewells. Available with five skin tone modifiers on all platforms.
Hand emojis differ in orientation and form: 👋 (open hand waving in motion), 🤚 (back of raised hand, polite stop sign), 🖐️ (five fingers spread, stop or hello), ✋ (open palm, stop or oath). Each has a different nuance even though all can be used to greet depending on context.
👋 (waving hand) is in motion — the hand making a dynamic goodbye or hello gesture. ✋ (raised hand) is static — the open palm facing you, as if to say stop or take an oath. 🤚 (raised back of hand) shows the back of the hand — more used in the sense of "stop" or to attract attention.
In practice: 👋 for greetings at the start or end of a message, ✋ for "wait" or "I have something to say", and 🤚 in a more formal register or to mark a pause. All three accept skin tone modifiers.
Yes. 👋, ✌️, 👌, 🤌, 🤙, 🙌, 👏, 🖖 and all hand emojis on this page are standard Unicode characters that work on WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter/X, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, Gmail and Outlook.
Appearance may vary slightly by platform but the copied character is identical everywhere. Click any emoji to copy it and paste it directly into your message.