A standing ovation in pocket form, the clapping hands: medium skin tone emoji is your go-to for cheering, celebrating, and giving someone their flowers without smudging your mascara. It shouts โwell done,โ โyou did that,โ and โbravo!โ with the enthusiasm of a proud friend in the front row. Expect it in group chats after promotions, touchdown replays, and that one friend finally assembling IKEA furniture without crying.
Online, it moonlights as punctuation: the iconic emphasis format (like this) where people clap ๐ between ๐ words ๐ for extra drama. It also doubles as the โslow clapโ for sarcastic praise when someone states the obvious, plus a classic hype-react under thirst traps, award speeches, and mic-drop threads. Stan Twitter and TikTok comment sections use it to gas up iconic moments, while Slack and Discord employ it as the universal โyes chefโ reaction.
On Apple devices, this version shows two warm medium-brown hands mid-smack, slightly angled, fingers together, with crisp motion lines radiating around the palms. The iOS style has soft shading and gentle highlights that make the hands look rounded and lively, like theyโre actually moving. The pose is instantly recognizableโcupped palms, tidy fingertips, and that satisfying โapplauseโ burst that practically sounds loud in your head.
The Clapping Hands Sign emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2177 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Olive Toned Clapping Hands Sign |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ฝ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ฝ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👏 🏽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👏 🏽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f44f, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44F, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128079, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8F, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 217, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4f, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56399, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44F 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44F, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128079, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44F\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFD" |
