Glyph for U+1F44B Source: Noto Emoji
U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
U+1F44B was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+1F300 to U+1F5FF Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition . Its East Asian Width is wide . In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral . When changing direction it is not mirrored . U+1F44B prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character “waving hand” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bye, cya, g2g, greetings, gtg, hand, hello, hey, hi, later, outtie, ttfn, ttyl, wave, yo, you.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0E Variation Selector-15 an emoji modifier . See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Waving is a nonverbal communication gesture that consists of the movement of the hand and/or entire arm that people commonly use to greet each other, but it can also be used to say goodbye, acknowledge another's presence, call for silence, or deny someone. The wave gesture is an essential element of human language.
Representations
System
Representation
Nº
128075
UTF-8
F0 9F 91 8B
UTF-16
D8 3D DC 4B
UTF-32
00 01 F4 4B
URL-Quoted
%F0%9F%91%8B
HTML hex reference
👋
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
👋
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
94 39 D0 39
Complete Record
Property
Value
Age (age)
6.0 (2010)
Unicode Name (na)
WAVING HAND SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
—
Block (blk)
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
General Category (gc)
Other Symbol
Script (sc)
Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)
Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)
Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)
none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Lowercase (Lower)
✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Uppercase (Upper)
✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Case Folding (cf)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)
✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)
✘
Case Ignorable (CI)
✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
✘
Cased (Cased)
✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
✘
Dash (Dash)
✘
Deprecated (Dep)
✘
Diacritic (Dia)
✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
✔
Emoji Component (EComp)
✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
✔
Emoji (Emoji)
✔
Extender (Ext)
✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
✔
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)
Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
✘
Hex Digit (Hex)
✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)
✘
ID Continue (IDC)
✘
ID Start (IDS)
✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
✘
IDSU (IDSU)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)
0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)
0
Ideographic (Ideo)
✘
InCB (InCB)
None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)
NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)
Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
—
Join Control (Join_C)
✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
✘
Math (Math)
✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)
Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)
Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)
Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)
Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)
✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)
✘
Other Math (OMath)
✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)
✘
Regional Indicator (RI)
✘
Radical (Radical)
✘
Sentence Break (SB)
Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
✘
Variation Selector (VS)
✘
Word Break (WB)
Other
White Space (WSpace)
✘
XID Continue (XIDC)
✘
XID Start (XIDS)
✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)
None
East Asian Width (ea)
wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)
Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
—
Joining Group (jg)
No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)
Non Joining
Line Break (lb)
Emoji Base
Numeric Type (nt)
none
Numeric Value (nv)
not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)
Glyph for U+1F44B Waving Hand Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)
U