👏 "clapping hands" emoji (copy and paste)
clapping hands
Two hands clapping emoji, which when used multiple times can be used as a round of applause.
Meaning of the clapping hands Emoji
Represents clapping, symbolizing applause, appreciation, or encouragement, often in response to a performance or achievement. Includes skin tone variants: light skin tone, medium-light skin tone, medium skin tone, medium-dark skin tone, and dark skin tone. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name 'Clapping Hands Sign' and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Usage Examples
- Great job on the presentation! 👏
- That performance was amazing 👏👏👏
- Clapping for your success 👏
- Well done, keep it up 👏
- Applauding the winner 👏
Alternative Names
clapping hands sign, applause
Related Word Associations
applause, appreciation, encouragement, clapping, hands
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 👏 clapping hands emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F44F
- Version:
- Emoji E0.6
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :clap: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :clap: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :clap: |
| HTML Dec | 👏 |
| HTML Hex | 👏 |
| CSS | \01F44F |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001F44F |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDC4F |
| Perl | \x{1F44F} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F44F} |
| Punycode | xn--xp8h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%91%8F |
| Unicode 6.0 (2010), Emoji 1.0 (2015). | |
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clapping hands: light skin tone
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clapping hands: medium-light skin tone
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clapping hands: medium skin tone
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clapping hands: medium-dark skin tone
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