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Clapping Hands is the Unicode character ๐Ÿ‘ at codepoint U+1F44F in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard โ€” or use one of the encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.

Technical Reference

Unicode Codepoint
Decimal
UTF-8 (hex)
UTF-16 (hex)
HEX Entity
HTML Entity
CSS (\xxxx)
JavaScript
Python

How to Use Clapping Hands

To use the Clapping Hands symbol (๐Ÿ‘) in HTML, insert the entity 👏 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 👏 works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F44F';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F44F}' evaluates to ๐Ÿ‘. In Python source, write '\U0001F44F'.

The character encodes to F0 9F 91 8F as UTF-8 bytes and D83D DC4F as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 128079.

This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.

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Last updated on 4 May 2026