Meet the digital standing ovation: clapping hands: medium-dark skin tone, the go-to when someone absolutely ate and left no crumbs. It shouts bravo for promotions, birthday speeches, viral wins, and that one friend who finally mastered parallel parking. Online, it fuels the iconic 👏🏾 between 👏🏾 every 👏🏾 word emphasis for clapbacks, hot takes, and PSA-level truths. It doubles as a sarcastic slow clap when a plot twist is obvious or your Wi‑Fi decides to buffer right at the finale—bravo to that. Flirty or hyped? Drop a volley of these to say “you did THAT,” louder than a stadium wave.
On Apple/iOS, you get two hands in three‑quarter view with clean curves, fingers pressed together, and subtle shading; motion lines radiate to sell the smack of applause, and the medium‑dark skin tone reads as a warm, deep brown gradient. The silhouette—palms meeting with little action marks—is instantly recognizable in a crowded comment section. Culturally, it nods to the movie‑trope slow clap that snowballs into roaring cheers, award‑show standing ovations, and that one theater kid who never misses their cue. Use it earnestly to celebrate, dramatically to roast, or playfully to punctuate a sentence like a human hi‑hat.
The Clapping Hands Sign emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3418 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: | Deeper Brown Clapping Hands Sign |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44F, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128079, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8F, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 217, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4f, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56399, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44F 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44F, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128079, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44F\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFE" |
