👏
Skin tone
clapping hands Emoji
👏 clapping hands: copy and paste this emoji, see its Unicode codepoint, pick a skin tone, and find related emoji in the People & Body category.
- Unicode codepoint
- U+1F44F
- Category
- People & Body
- Introduced in
- Emoji version 0.6 (2010)
- Skin tones
- Supported (see picker)
- Gender forms
- Not applicable
Also known as
applause approval awesome clap congrats congratulations excited good great hand homie job nice prayed well yay
How it looks on your device
The glyph above is rendered by your own operating system or browser, so it may look slightly different on Windows, Android or iOS - that's normal, each platform ships its own emoji artwork for the same underlying character.
What it means
Applause: well done, congratulations, bravo. Also used between every word for emphasis (this 👏 is 👏 important 👏), which reads as either energetic or condescending depending on the audience.
How people use it
- Congratulating someone
- Emphasis between words
- Sarcastic slow clap
Examples
- well done 👏
- you 👏 did 👏 that 👏
- great job on the demo 👏👏
Good to know
Supports skin tone modifiers.
Shortcodes
Type one of these (including the colons) to insert the emoji on that platform.
- GitHub
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:clap: - Slack
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:clap:
In other languages
- Nederlands
- klappende handen
- Deutsch
- klatschende Hände
- Français
- applaudissements
- Español
- manos aplaudiendo