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 Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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