👏Clapping Hands Emoji
Generally, it means “well done! ” or “good job!
The clapping hands emoji (👏) is pretty straightforward.
- Unicode
- U+1F44F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :clap:
- Skin tones
- Yes
- Popularity
- #26 most used
What does the 👏 Clapping Hands emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 16 of them.
People also look for it as well emoji, applause emoji, good job emoji, clap emoji, clap hands emoji, hand clap emoji, hands clapping emoji, great emoji.
Clapping Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the clapping hands as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Clapping Hands emoji skin tones
👏 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Clapping Hands emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :clap:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the clapping hands, code point U+1F44F.
How to type the 👏 Clapping Hands emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Clapping Hands emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the clapping hands as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Clapping Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around clapping hands for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👏, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👏 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 👏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the clapping hands lands changes how it is taken.
👏 vs 🫶 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Clapping Hands
Code: U+1F44F · added 2010
Shortcode: :clap:
Generally, it means “well done!
Unicode name: Heart Hands
Code: U+1FAF6 · added 2021
Shortcode: :heart_hands:
Generally, 🫶 means “I care about you” or “sending you love.
Where the 👏 Clapping Hands emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F44F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👏 existed there as
KDDI au EAD3, SoftBank E41F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Clapping Hands was approved as U+1F44F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👏 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.