👋 Waving Hand
The 👋 Waving Hand emoji (U+1F44B) is part of the People category, where it sits in the Hand Gestures group alongside 37 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords hi, hello, and wave, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express hi in a message, caption, or comment, 👋 is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of hello, and wave. Like every emoji, the Waving Hand renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+1F44B is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the 👋 emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to 👋 in the Hand Gestures group include 🤚 Raised Back of Hand, ✋ Raised Hand, 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed, ✌️ Victory Hand, 🤞 Crossed Fingers, 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed, and it is frequently combined with 🤚 Raised Back of Hand and ✋ Raised Hand in messages. The People category contains 158 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.