👏🏻 Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone

👏🏻 Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone is one of the two-handed gestures in Unicode's People & Body group. In practice it comes up around applause, approval, awesome and clap. Further official keywords are congrats, congratulations, excited and good.

👏🏻 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. The character has been part of the standard since 2015 (Emoji 1.0). Its code point is U+1F44F U+1F3FB.

• A single 👏🏻 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about applause, approval, awesome and clap.
• Often seen near 🙌🏻 Raising Hands: Light Skin Tone, 👏 Clapping Hands and 🙌 Raising Hands.

• 👏🏻👐 – Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone and Open Hands
• 👏🏻🤝 – Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone with Handshake
• 👏🏻🙏 – Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone plus Folded Hands
• 👏🏻🤲 – Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone and Palms up Together
• 👏🏻🫶 – Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone with Heart Hands
• 👏🏻🙌 – Clapping Hands: Light Skin Tone plus Raising Hands

Easy to mix up with 🙌🏻 Raising Hands: Light Skin Tone, 👏 Clapping Hands or 🙌 Raising Hands. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.