U+1F44B · emoji since 2010
The waving hand opens and closes conversations with equal grace: hi, bye, welcome, and see you around.
It's the friendliest way to enter a group chat or duck out of one, and the polite nudge when someone's gone quiet. Hello? 👋
In texting, 👋 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 👋 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Waving Hand emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the waving hand emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 👋 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.