Clapping hands

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Shortcode: :clap:
Shortcode: :clapping_hands:
Unicode: U+1F44F
HTML: 👏
CSS: \1F44F
JavaScript: "\u{1F44F}"
URL: %F0%9F%91%8F

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What 👏 means

Applause. 👏 means congratulations, praise or "well done."

Wins, launches, speeches and birthdays all earn a 👏. Placed between words, as in "read👏the👏rules," it stresses every word with sass or anger.

A slow, single 👏 can be sarcastic: applause for something that did not deserve it.

Facts

Clapping hands 👏 is an emoji in the people and body category, under hands. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :clap: or :clapping_hands:. People also look for it with words like “applause”, “approval”, “awesome”, or “clap”.