U+1F44F Clapping Hands Sign
U+1F44F was added to Unicode in version 6.0 (2010). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+1F44F behaves as Emoji Base regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “clapping hands” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: clap, clapping hands, hand.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 👏︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Applause (Latin applaudere, to strike upon, clap) is primarily a form of ovation or praise expressed by the act of clapping, or striking the palms of the hands together, in order to create noise. Audiences usually applaud after a performance, such as a musical concert, speech, or play, as a sign of enjoyment and approval.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128079 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 91 8F |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DC 4F |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F4 4F |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%91%8F |
| HTML hex reference | 👏 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 👠|
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 6.0 (2010) | |
| CLAPPING HANDS SIGN | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Emoji Base | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Clapping Hands Sign | |
| U |