Applause, but make it melanin-rich. The clapping hands: dark skin tone emoji brings big “bravo!” energy—perfect for celebrating wins, hyping your friends, or delivering a slow, dramatic clap that says, “and what was the reason?” It’s also a go-to for the internet’s favorite punctuation trick: dropping claps between words for emphasis—Listen 👏 to 👏 the 👏 assignment. Sarcastically, it doubles as the cinematic slow clap when something is… impressively underwhelming.
On Apple devices, you’ll see two warm, dark-brown hands angled slightly to the right, fingers together with soft highlights and shading for a glossy, 3D feel. Radiating lines/triangles pop around the hands to sell the motion, like little bursts of sound. No cuffs, no frills—just crisp palms mid-snap. Culturally, it thrives in Black Twitter call-and-response, stan hype threads, and “clap-backs” that land with a standing ovation. Use it for real applause, petty applause, or that sweet “you did that!” energy after someone drops receipts.
The Clapping Hands Sign emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3419 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Black 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44F, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128079, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8F, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8F, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 217, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4F, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4f, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56399, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44F 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44F, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128079, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44F\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8f\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFF" |
