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👏🏼 Clapping Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone Emoji

This is the medium-light skin tone variant of the 👏 clapping hands emoji, commonly used for congratulating someone on a promotion, graduation, or win., applauding a fantastic presentation or performance., placing between words to add rhythmic emphasis to a point..

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Clapping Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone
Category
People & Body
Subcategory
Hands
Unicode
U+1F44F U+1F3FC
Emoji version
Emoji 1.0
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The 👏🏼 clapping hands: medium-light skin tone emoji is the medium-light skin tone variant of 👏 clapping hands. 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. The skin tone modifies its visual appearance while maintaining its core meaning.

Tone
CelebratorySupportiveEnthusiasticPraising
Quick Meaning

This is the medium-light skin tone variant of the 👏 clapping hands emoji, commonly used for congratulating someone on a promotion, graduation, or win., applauding a fantastic presentation or performance., placing between words to add rhythmic emphasis to a point..

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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Official Name

Clapping Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Subcategory: Hands

Aliases & Common Names

  • clapping hands
  • clapping hands medium-light skin tone

Keywords & Search Terms

  • clapping hands
  • clapping
  • hands
  • person
  • gesture
  • body
  • people
  • role
  • activity
  • identity
  • gestures
  • reactions
Developer Reference

👏🏼 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F44F U+1F3FC
Code points
U+1F44F U+1F3FC
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8F 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDC4F\uD83C\uDFFC
HTML decimal entity
👏🏼
HTML hexadecimal entity
👏🏼
JavaScript escape
\u{1F44F}\u{1F3FC}
CSS escape
\1F44F \1F3FC
Python string
\U0001F44F\U0001F3FC
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for 👏🏼

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
👏
U+1F44FClapping Hands
+
Step 2
🏼
U+1F3FCMedium-Light Skin Tone
Variations

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Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
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CC BY 4.0
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OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Clapping Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone emoji in OpenMoji style

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This is the medium-light skin tone variant of the 👏 clapping hands emoji, commonly used for congratulating someone on a promotion, graduation, or win., applauding a fantastic presentation or performance., placing between words to add rhythmic emphasis to a point..