Clapping hands: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A pair of hands shown in a dark skin tone mid-clapping motion. Small motion lines appear above the hands, signifying the sound and impact of applause.

Usage Context

Used to show appreciation, celebrate a success, or offer a virtual round of applause. It is frequently sent to show support for a friend's achievement, often paired with 🎉 or 🙌🏿 to heighten the celebratory tone. It is also common in internet culture to put this emoji between every word in a sentence to emphasize a point or show frustration.

History

The clapping hands gesture was added to Unicode in 2010. The dark skin tone variant was introduced in 2015 as part of the expansion of the Fitzpatrick scale, allowing users to select skin tones that better reflect human diversity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👏🏿

Unicode

U+1F44F U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44f_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4F;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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