| Emoji | 👏🏽 |
| Name | clapping hands: medium skin tone |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F44F U+1F3FD |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subcategory | Hands |
| Emoji Version | 1 |
| Tags | applause, approval, awesome, clap, congrats, congratulations, excited, good, great, hand, homie, job, nice, prayed, well, yay |
| Decimal Value | 128079 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F44F-1F3FD |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 👏 / 👏-1F3FD; |
The clapping hands: medium skin tone emoji represents a person, body part, gesture, or human activity — this category is deliberately broad and detailed so that messaging can represent people, professions, and gestures with more accuracy and inclusivity than earlier, more limited emoji sets allowed.
Category context: The People & Body category is Unicode's largest emoji group, covering body parts, hand gestures, family compositions, professions, and activities — many of which support optional skin-tone modifiers to represent human diversity.
Cataloged under Hands within the People & Body category, clapping hands: medium skin tone is the 605th of 2418 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 1 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, this specific version includes a skin-tone modifier, meaning it is built by combining a base emoji with one of the five Fitzpatrick-scale skin-tone components introduced in Unicode 8.0. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F44F U+1F3FD.
💡 Good to know: Many People & Body emoji support skin-tone modifiers (added in Unicode 8.0, 2015) — if this specific emoji has tone variants, they'll be shown as related emoji below.