👏
People & Body
clapping hands sign emoji
Two hands clapping — applause, congratulations, or sarcastic slow clap. Used for genuine praise and ironically when someone states the obvious.
Unicode data
| Character | 👏 |
| Codepoint | U+1F44F |
| Unicode name | CLAPPING HANDS SIGN |
| Added in | Unicode 0.6 |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subcategory | hands |
| HTML entity | 👏 |
| Shortcode | :clap: |
Platform support
Apple / iOS✓ Supported
Google / Android✓ Supported
Twitter / X (Twemoji)✓ Supported
Platform designs vary — the same codepoint renders differently on iOS, Android, and web. Twemoji is the open-source reference used on this site (CC BY 4.0).
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