Emojion๐ waving hand
Meaning
Primarily used for hello and goodbye, but depending on context it can also signal dismissal or a definitive farewell.
Keywords: bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand, hello, hey, hi, later, outtie, ttfn, ttyl, wave, yo, you
This emoji supports skin tone variations.
๐ก Did you know?
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.
๐ก Did you know?
On Chinese WeChat, ๐ has become shorthand for ending a friendship. A casual 'hey!' can land as a breakup notice โ proof that the same emoji means very different things depending on the platform and culture.
How it's used around the world
China
On WeChat, sending this emoji signals the end of a friendship (ๅๅฐฝ yวu jวn). What looks like a casual hello reads as 'we're done' to younger Chinese users โ one of the starkest platform-specific emoji shifts around.
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