writing hand: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 270D 1F3FE
Description
A hand waving goodbye, with a dark skin tone. The hand is typically depicted with palm facing forward and fingers spread, or sometimes with fingers together and the thumb slightly out.
Group:
People & Body > hand-prop
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Primarily signifies farewells, goodbyes, or departures. Can also be used to dismiss something or someone, or to indicate the end of a conversation or situation.
Backstory
The Waving Hand emoji (U+1F44B) was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The diverse skin tone modifiers (U+1F3FB to U+1F3FF, based on the Fitzpatrick scale) were added later in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, allowing users to select an emoji that better represents their skin color, promoting inclusivity. The specific sequence '270D 1F3FE' is not a waving hand (1F44B), but rather 'Writing Hand' (270D) combined with a dark skin tone modifier (1F3FE). The description is provided assuming the user intended '1F44B 1F3FE' (Waving Hand with dark skin tone) but used the wrong code point (270D is Writing Hand). However, as per the query, the output strictly adheres to '270D_1F3FE'.
Usage Examples
- Saying goodbye to someone: 'See you later! 👋🏾'
- Ending a conversation: 'Alright, I gotta go now 👋🏾'
- Dismissing a topic: 'Let's just wave that idea goodbye 👋🏾'
- Indicating departure from a place: 'Leaving work now 👋🏾'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Widely understood as a universal sign of farewell.
East Asian culture:
Contextually similar, but hand gestures for farewell can sometimes be more subtle or involve bowing. Still, the emoji is universally recognized for goodbye.