Emojion

👋 winkende Hand

Bedeutung

Primarily used for hello and goodbye, but depending on context it can also signal dismissal or a definitive farewell.

Stichwörter: auf wiedersehen, bis später, ciao, guten tag, hallo, hand, hey, hi, tschüs, tschüss, winken

Dieses Emoji hat Hautfarben-Varianten.

So wird es weltweit verwendet

  • China

    On WeChat, sending this emoji signals the end of a friendship (友尽 yǒu jǐn). What looks like a casual hello reads as 'we're done' to younger Chinese users — one of the starkest platform-specific emoji shifts around.

💡 Schon gewusst?

Approved in Unicode 6.0 (2010) as 'Waving Hand Sign,' it became part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015, the same year five skin tone variants were added.

💡 Schon gewusst?

Hey, long time no see! 👋
...wait, are you ending our friendship??

On Chinese WeChat, 👋 has become shorthand for ending a friendship. A casual 'hey!' can land as a breakup notice — proof that the same emoji means very different things depending on the platform and culture.