Your pocket-sized standing ovation—the clapping hands: light skin tone emoji brings the applause with zero noise complaints. Perfect for hyping a friend’s promotion, celebrating a wholesome win, or punctuating a mic-drop take. Online, it’s legendary for the “👏 between 👏 words” meme to add dramatic emphasis. It can also deliver a deliciously petty slow clap when you’re going for sarcasm or a subtle golf-clap vibe.
On Apple/iOS, you see two light-peach hands mid-slap, fingers neatly aligned with thumbs peeking out, angled in a three-quarter view. Soft gradients give that polished Apple sheen, while small radiating lines around the hands sell the motion and sound. The pose is unmistakably mid-applause—neither a high-five nor folded hands—just crisp, rhythmic clapping. You can practically hear the polite “clap clap” or the full encore roar.
You’ll spot it in group chats after a power move, in TikTok comments hyping a glow-up, and in spicy “clap back” replies when someone brings receipts. Use it earnestly for kudos, ironically for a slow clap, or dramatically when you want the timeline to know you are Very Impressed.
The Clapping Hands Sign emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1952 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | White Clapping Hands Sign |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👏🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👏🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👏 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👏 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f44f, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44F, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128079, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8F, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 217, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4f, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56399, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44F 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44F, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128079, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44F\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFB" |
