The clapping hands: medium-light skin tone emoji is your pocket-sized standing ovation—perfect for celebrating wins, hyping a bestie, or delivering a dramatic slow clap worthy of an ‘80s movie villain. It shouts bravo, golf clap, or “yes queen” depending on the context, and it’s the MVP of the classic internet bit where people put 👏 the 👏 clap 👏 between 👏 words for emphasis. It can be earnest (congrats on that promotion!), ironic (slow… clap…), or used as a rhythmic “clap back” in debates when you’re feeling spicy. Think award-show energy for texts, Slack kudos without the HR meeting, and TikTok comments when a fit absolutely eats.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows two slightly cupped hands angled diagonally, rendered in a warm medium-light beige with soft shading and clean gradients. You’ll spot the tiny motion lines bursting around the palms—like a mini comic-book “action” cue—so you can almost hear the applause. No sleeves or jewelry, just crisp, realistic hands with visible finger shapes and a gentle 3D look that reads instantly even at small sizes. It’s great for theater curtain calls, sports highlights, K-pop stan chants, or that polite “golf clap” when your friend finally sends the file as a PDF on the first try.
The Clapping Hands Sign emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1964 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44F, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128079, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8F, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 217, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4f, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56399, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44F 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44F, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128079, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44F\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFC" |
