👏🏻
What 👏🏻 means
👏🏻 is the Clapping Hands emoji with the light skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
Two palms coming together in a clap, along with animated clicking marks around the palms to give the effect of a clap. This emoji signifies happy emotions.
Read the full meaning and usage guide for 👏 Clapping Hands →
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hands
- Codepoints
U+1F44F U+1F3FB- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:clap_tone1:Discord- Keywords
- applause, approval, awesome, clap, congrats, congratulations, excited, good, great, hand, homie, job, light skin tone, nice, prayed, well, yay
- Variant of
- 👏 clapping hands · how tone modifiers work
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👏🏻 Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone or 👨🦼 Man in Motorized Wheelchair?