Waving Hand Medium Skin Tone

The waving hand medium skin tone icon represents a friendly greeting or farewell gesture. It is often used to acknowledge someone's presence or to bid farewell. The icon features a hand with its palm facing outward and fingers waving.

In digital communication, this icon is commonly used in messaging apps, social media platforms, and online forums to convey a sense of friendliness or approachability. It can be found in various software and platforms, including Slack, Discord, and Facebook.

From a UX perspective, the waving hand icon communicates a sense of approachability and friendliness, helping users understand that the interaction is casual and informal. It can be used to initiate a conversation or to respond to a message in a lighthearted manner.

Waving Hand Medium Skin Tone is one of 1,834 icons in Emoji One (Colored), made by Emoji One and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 64 × 64 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds WavingHandMediumSkinToneIcon to components/icons/emojione-waving-hand-medium-skin-tone.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed WavingHandMediumSkinToneIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Waving Hand Medium Skin Tone icon, or any of 1,834 Emoji One (Colored) icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 64 × 64 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Waving Hand Medium Skin Tone", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. WavingHandMediumSkinToneIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <WavingHandMediumSkinToneIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes, with credit: CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author (Emoji One) where you use the icons. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author where you use the icons, for example "Icons by Emoji One, CC BY 4.0" on an about or credits page.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

Its tags are communication, emoji, expression, reaction, greeting and hand gesture. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Waving Hand Medium Skin Tone in another set.

Emoji One (Colored) draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Waving Hand Medium Skin Tone's siblings in it.