👋🏻 Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone

Unicode lists 👋🏻 Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone among the open-hand gestures in the People & Body group. Typical contexts are bye, cya, g2g and greetings. The keyword list continues with gtg, hand, hello and hey.

👋🏻 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. The character has been part of the standard since 2015 (Emoji 1.0). Its code point is U+1F44B U+1F3FB.

• A single 👋🏻 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about bye, cya, g2g and greetings.
• Often seen near 🤚 Raised Back of Hand, 👋 Waving Hand and 🤚🏻 Raised Back of Hand: Light Skin Tone.

• 👋🏻✋ – Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone and Raised Hand
• 👋🏻🖐️ – Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone with Hand with Fingers Splayed
• 👋🏻🤚 – Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone plus Raised Back of Hand
• 👋🏻🫱 – Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone and Rightwards Hand
• 👋🏻🫲 – Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone with Leftwards Hand
• 👋🏻🖖 – Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone plus Vulcan Salute

Easy to mix up with 🤚 Raised Back of Hand, 👋 Waving Hand or 🤚🏻 Raised Back of Hand: Light Skin Tone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.