Clapping hands: light skin tone Emoji
People
A pair of human hands with a light skin tone shown mid-clap, tilted slightly to the right with motion lines indicating the sound of applause. This variation applies the Fitzpatrick scale to represent a lighter skin tone.
Usage Context
Used to show genuine appreciation, offer a round of applause for an achievement, or sarcastically highlight someone's questionable behavior. It is frequently sent in strings of three or more to simulate a standing ovation and is often paired with the 🎉 party popper or 🙌 raising hands to amplify the celebration.
History
While the basic clapping hands emoji debuted in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the ability to modify skin tones was added in 2015 with Unicode 8.0. This update allowed users to better represent their identity by selecting from a range of skin tone modifiers based on the Fitzpatrick scale.
Details
Glyph
👏🏻
Unicode
U+1F44F U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f44f_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hands
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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