👏

A pair of hands clapping.

👏

1. Indicates approval.

   Synonym: 👍

   Antonym: 👎

   • 2024 October 24, Mehera Bonner, Jamie Ballard, “Hi, You Should See These Rare Photos of Prince William Through the Years”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2] (in English):

     Teaming up at an event to launch a campaign for mental wellbeing? Love to see it. 👏

2. (Internet slang, originally African-American Vernacular) Used between words to add emphasis to a statement or opinion.^[1]
   • 2024 September 16, Samantha Olson, “The ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Cast Just Cleared Up Rumors About Walking Out During ‘The Traitors’ Emmy Win”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[3]:

     But! The [RuPaul's] Drag Race cast had none 👏 of 👏 that 👏 as they took to social media and explained what really went down. “It was a commercial break and the girls wanted a drink,” Plane Jane wrote in response.

   • 2024 October 30, Gretty Garcia, “Zazie Beetz and David Rysdahl’s Relationship Timeline All in One Place”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[4] (in English):

     Zazie and David are clearly booked 👏🏻 and 👏🏻 busy 👏🏻. Case in point? Their appearance at the Gotham Awards in New York City.

The base emoji typically has a generic, non-realistic skin tone, such as bright yellow, blue, gray. With the Fitzpatrick skin type modifiers 1–2 (🏻), 3 (🏼), 4 (🏽), 5 (🏾), 6 (🏿), the resulting emoji be will one of the following combinations:

• ✍