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👏 Clapping Hands Emoji

The 👏 Clapping Hands emoji represents applause, praise, celebration, approval, or emphasizing words in a statement.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Clapping Hands
Category
People & Body
Subcategory
Hands
Unicode
U+1F44F
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The 👏 Clapping Hands emoji signifies applause and enthusiastic recognition. It is used to congratulate someone on an achievement, celebrate good news, or show public appreciation. On social media, people also place 👏 between individual words to mimic rhythmic clapping for dramatic emphasis.

Tone
CelebratorySupportiveEnthusiasticPraising
Quick Meaning

The 👏 Clapping Hands emoji represents applause, praise, celebration, approval, or emphasizing words in a statement.

Use Cases

How People Use 👏

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Congratulating someone on a promotion, graduation, or win

Congratulating someone on a promotion, graduation, or win.

Applauding a fantastic presentation or performance

Applauding a fantastic presentation or performance.

Placing between words to add rhythmic emphasis to a point

Placing between words to add rhythmic emphasis to a point.

Real Messages

👏 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 👏.

“Huge congratulations on launching the new app 👏”

“Give it up for our team of the month 👏”

“Listen 👏 to 👏 the 👏 feedback 👏”

“Well deserved promotion 👏”

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Lookup Data

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Official Name

Clapping Hands

Subcategory: Hands

Aliases & Common Names

  • clap
  • applause
  • clapping
  • bravo

Keywords & Search Terms

  • clapping hands
  • clap
  • applause
  • bravo
  • congratulations
  • praise
  • cheer
  • approval
Developer Reference

👏 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F44F
Code points
U+1F44F
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8F
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDC4F
HTML decimal entity
👏
HTML hexadecimal entity
👏
JavaScript escape
\u{1F44F}
CSS escape
\1F44F
Python string
\U0001F44F
Variations

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Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Clapping Hands emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Clapping Hands emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Clapping Hands emoji in OpenMoji style

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The 👏 Clapping Hands emoji represents applause, praise, celebration, approval, or emphasizing words in a statement.