Clapping hands: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two hands with a medium-dark skin tone hitting palms together to create the motion of applause. The fingers are slightly fanned, capturing the action of a hearty round of cheering.

Usage Context

This is the go-to signal for showing genuine support, celebrating a milestone, or giving a virtual high-five. It is frequently used sarcastically to emphasize a point or to clap back at a bad take, often used in strings like 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 to mimic slow, deliberate applause.

History

The base clapping hands emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The skin tone modifiers were introduced in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update, utilizing the Fitzpatrick scale to allow users to better represent their identity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👏🏾

Unicode

U+1F44F U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44f_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4F;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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