Clapping hands: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A pair of human hands positioned palms-together in the middle of a clap, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The hands appear mid-motion, indicating active approval or excitement.

Usage Context

Used to applaud a digital achievement, offer genuine praise, or provide sarcastic applause when someone says something foolish. It is frequently sent alongside 🎉 or 🙌 during celebratory messages or to highlight a high-quality post.

History

The basic clapping hands icon arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Skin tone modifiers were introduced later in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, drawing from the Fitzpatrick scale to allow users to better represent their own hands in digital conversations.

Details

Glyph

👏🏼

Unicode

U+1F44F U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44f_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4F;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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