Clapping Hands emoji
Type :clap: · #27 most-used emoji · People & body
Unicode name Clapping Hands · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 👏 means
Applause, sincere by default. Beware the every 👏 word 👏 pattern, which is emphatic and slightly combative; a single clap row after good news is just credit where due.
If you are trying to read into it
Applause, sincere by default. The every 👏 word 👏 pattern is a different thing entirely, emphatic and slightly combative. One clap row after good news is just credit where it is due.
How to type 👏 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :clap
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 👏 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:clap: :clapping_hands: Search terms
Also found by searching applause, approval, awesome, clap, congrats, congratulations.
Skin tones for 👏
Clapping Hands comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 👏 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 👏🏻 light 👏🏼 medium-light 👏🏽 medium 👏🏾 medium-dark 👏🏿 dark 👏 in HTML, CSS and code
Clapping Hands is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F44F
- HTML
- 👏
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F44F}'
- CSS content
- "\1F44F"
- Python
- '\U0001F44F'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%91%8F
Related emojis
:ok_hand: 👍️ :+1: 👎️ :-1: 👋 :wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: 🫴 :palm_up: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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