Wave Kaomoji

Tap a face to copy it: 66 kaomoji with one arm up, for hello, goodbye, good night or welcome home.

Wave Kaomoji

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉEasy smile, narrow katakana no for the arm10 code pointsReady to copy

66 waving kaomoji. Tap one to copy it.

Right arm up 17

Left arm up 10

Arm in motion 9

Saying hello 12

Saying goodbye 9

Tiny, hidden or in pairs 9

Next step The waving hand in emoji Both arms out, palms up: shrug faces

How it works

These 66 wave kaomoji each raise one arm: a slash, the katakana ノ, or ヾ on the left. Tap one and it is copied. Thirteen need only a keyboard, (^_^)/ among them.

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Find a wave, tap it

Tap a tile and the face is on your clipboard. The groups go by the arm: right arm up, left arm up, arm in motion, then saying hello, saying goodbye, and the tiny, hidden or paired ones. Search reads the labels: good night finds (－ω－)ﾉおやすみ and (－_－)ﾉ zzz, welcome home finds ヾ(・ω・*) おかえり, and shoo finds ヾ(ーー ).

What the waving kaomoji say

The glosses are Wiktionary's. やあ is hi and おっす an informal hey. おはよう is good morning, こんにちは good day and こんばんは good evening. ただいま is I'm home, and おかえり answers it: welcome home. バイバイ is bye-bye, borrowed from English; またね and じゃあね are see you.

Tips

The left arm ヾ is Katakana voiced iteration mark, U+30FE. The right arm, ノ or narrow ﾉ, is Katakana letter no, in 38 faces.
o/, \o, ノシ and ﾉｼ are the shortest at 2 code points. Short keeps the 23 of 6 or fewer.
One face borrows a character: the mouth of ( ˙꒳˙ )ﾉ is Yi radical jo, U+A4B3. Everyday characters keeps the other 65.

Questions and answers

What does ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ mean?

An easy hello or goodbye: two accents for eyes, a white triangle for a smile, and ﾉ for a raised arm. The face does not say which, so two groups add the word. Put ｼ after the arm and it is goodbye.

What does ノシ mean?

Goodbye. Wiktionary lists ノシ as internet slang representing an arm waving goodbye, derived from kaomoji such as (･ω･)ﾉｼ. It is two katakana letters, no and shi, and it works with no face at all. Search noshi for the five entries that use it.

How do you type a waving face on a keyboard?

(^_^)/ is two brackets, two carets, an underscore and a slash for the arm. A backslash in front, \(^o^), puts the arm on the other side. Search keyboard for all 13, down to o/, which is a head and an arm.

Where are the salutes and the faces with both arms up?

On other pages, since this family files each face once. One raised arm is a wave. Both arms up with an open mouth is excited, and both arms out with palms up is a shrug. o7 is with the salute emoji.

All 66 waving kaomoji

Right arm up 17

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ Easy smile, narrow katakana no for the arm
( ˙꒳˙ )ﾉ Dot eyes and a Yi radical for a mouth. Borrows ꒳ from Yi.
(*・ω・)ﾉ Asterisk on one cheek
(-_-)/ Keyboard only, deadpan
(^_^)/ Keyboard only, a slash for the arm
(´・ω・`)ﾉ Drooping brows, a small sad wave
(≧▽≦)/ Eyes squeezed shut, thrilled to see you
(⌒▽⌒)ﾉ Arcs for eyes
(◕‿◕)ノ Big eyes, undertie smile
(・ω・)ノ Omega mouth, full size katakana no
(・∀・)ノ Wide grin, the for all sign
(｀・ω・´)ノ Firm brows, reporting in
(･_･)ﾉ Straight face, halfwidth dots
(ﾟ▽ﾟ)/ Round open eyes, slash arm
(￣▽￣)ノ Fullwidth macron eyes, relaxed
(￣ー￣)ノ Prolonged sound mark mouth, unbothered
(^o^)/ Keyboard only, mouth open

Left arm up 10

ヽ(´ー｀) Laid back, eyes half shut
ヽ(・∀・) Plain iteration mark arm, wide grin
ヾ(°∇°*) Degree signs for eyes, surprised to see you
ヾ(´･ω･｀) Drooping brows on the other side
ヾ(≧∇≦*) Eyes squeezed shut on the left hand side
ヾ(・ω・*) Voiced iteration mark for a moving arm
ヾ(ーー ) Looking away, waving you off
ヾ(＾∇＾) Nabla mouth, fullwidth carets
＼(￣▽￣) Fullwidth backslash arm
\(^o^) Keyboard only, backslash arm

Show all 66 waving kaomoji (39 more)

Arm in motion 9

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉﾞ Voiced sound mark for the wobble
((ヾ(・ω・) To and fro on the left
(*^▽^)ﾉ" A straight quotation mark for the wobble
(^_^)/~~ Keyboard only, tildes trailing off the hand
(^▽^)ノシ The same blur in full size katakana
(´・ω・`)ﾉｼ Sad to go, arm still going
(・ω・)ﾉ)) Two brackets for the to and fro
(･ω･)ﾉｼ No and shi: the arm and its blur
(T_T)/~~~ Keyboard only, tearful, a hanky in the hand

Saying hello 12

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉただいま Tadaima, I am home
(⌒▽⌒)ﾉおはよう Ohayō, good morning
(・ω・)ノやあ Yā, hi
(・∀・)ノおっす Ossu, an informal hey
(・∀・)ノこんにちは Konnichiwa, good day
(＾▽＾)ノハロー Harō, hello borrowed into katakana
(￣▽￣)ノこんばんは Konbanwa, good evening
ヾ(・ω・*) おかえり Okaeri, welcome home
ヾ(・ω・*) hey Hey, from the left
(^_^)/ hi Hi, all of it on a keyboard
(^o^)/ hello Hello, all of it on a keyboard
(￣▽￣)ノ yo Yo

Saying goodbye 9

( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉバイバイ Baibai, bye-bye in katakana
(・ω・)ノまたね Mata ne, see you
(－ω－)ﾉおやすみ Oyasumi, good night, eyes already shut
(￣▽￣)ノじゃあね Jā ne, see you, bye
(^_^)/ bye Bye, all of it on a keyboard
(´・ω・`)ﾉ bye A reluctant bye
(・∀・)ノ later Later
(^o^)/ see you See you, all of it on a keyboard
(－_－)ﾉ zzz Off to bed, one hand up

Tiny, hidden or in pairs 9

(^_^)/ \(^_^) A pair, all of it on a keyboard
(・ω・)ノヾ(・ω・) Two of them, waving at each other
|ω・)ﾉ Half a face round the edge of a wall
┬┴┬┴┤･ω･)ﾉ From behind a fence of box drawing
ノシ Just the arm, Japanese slang for goodbye
ﾉｼ Just the arm, in narrow katakana
\o Two characters, the other arm
o/ Two characters: a head and an arm
(T_T)/~~~ ヾ(^_^ ) One in tears, one already turning to go

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 66 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement: each was put together for this page from the parts a waving kaomoji is made of (brackets, eyes, a mouth, one raised arm, sometimes a mark for the movement or a greeting). Some are forms in common use that nobody owns. The labels, groups and order are our own. The arms: a slash or a backslash; Katakana letter no (U+30CE) or its narrow form Halfwidth katakana letter no (U+FF89), in 38 entries; Katakana voiced iteration mark (U+30FE) or Katakana iteration mark (U+30FD) on the left. Wiktionary's entry for the two katakana no and shi (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ノシ, read 2026-09-19) gives them as internet slang representing an arm waving goodbye, derived from kaomoji such as (･ω･)ﾉｼ. Greetings from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-19: yā, hi, an informal greeting (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/やあ); ossu, informal, hey, hello (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/おっす); harō, hello, borrowed from English (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ハロー); ohayō, good morning (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/おはよう); konnichiwa, good day, good afternoon, a greeting used in the daytime (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/今日は); konbanwa, good evening (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/今晩は); tadaima, hello, here I am, I'm home, said by a person coming back home (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ただいま); okaeri, short for okaerinasai, welcome home (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/お帰り); baibai, informal, bye-bye, borrowed from English (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/バイバイ); mata ne, colloquial, bye, see you (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/またね); jā ne, see you, bye (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/じゃあね); oyasumi, good night (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/おやすみ). Every character of every entry was looked up in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and must be an assigned, visible character. Emoji are left out. "Borrows" under an entry names each character from outside the blocks of punctuation, common symbols and Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese letters, with its script from Scripts.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt) or, for a Latin or common character, its block from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). "Is on the emoji list" names each character that has the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt). "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work