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Clapping Emoticon

Tap the clapping hands to copy them, or pick a clapping emoticon made of text, such as (*^.^)//.

Clapping Emoticon

πŸ‘Clapping handsU+1F44FReady to copy

35 claps. Tap one to copy it.

Clapping hands, and what cheers with it 7

Clapping faces in plain text 9

Applause in Japanese and Korean 4

A clap between every word 3

Clapping combos 12

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How it works

The clapping emoticon is Clapping hands, U+1F44F, or in plain text a face with two hands meeting beside it: (*^.^)// for one. Applause in Japanese and Korean, clap-between-words lines and twelve combos follow.

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The emoji CLDR files under clap

Two: Clapping hands and Folding hand fan. Clapping hands alone is filed under applause, and its other search words include congrats, yay, nice and great. Raising hands is filed under praise and hooray, not under clap.

Clapping in text

Two slashes or two katakana γƒŽ strokes beside a face stand for the hands: (*^.^)// and (*^.^)γƒŽγƒŽ. Japanese writes the sound of clapping as ぱけぱけ and Korean as 짝짝; 拍手 and λ°•μˆ˜ are the two languages' words for applause.

  • Golf clap is quiet applause: Wiktionary traces the name to golf spectators clapping softly so players are not distracted.
  • In the clap-between-words lines, type your own words over ours and keep the hands.

Questions and answers

What is the clapping emoji called?

Clapping hands, U+1F44F. Unicode's own name for it is Clapping hands sign. It dates from Emoji 0.6, and CLDR files it under clap, applause, congrats and yay.

How do you type a clapping emoticon on a keyboard?

Type a face and two slashes for the hands: (*^.^)// is a parenthesis, an asterisk for a cheek, a caret, a period, a caret, a closing parenthesis and two slashes. Add clap clap after it for the sound.

What is a slow clap?

Wiktionary gives two senses: an audience clapping slowly, with long gaps, to show it disapproves, and in films, applause that builds from one person's clapping to a crowd's. The combo Turtle applause here is a turtle and Clapping hands.

How do you write clapping in Japanese or Korean?

Japanese writes the sound as ぱけぱけ and the word applause as 拍手. Korean writes the sound as 짝짝 and the word as λ°•μˆ˜. All four are tiles here, each checked in two dictionaries.

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Clapping hands, and what cheers with it 7

  • Clapping hands U+1F44F. The clap. Unicode's own name is Clapping hands sign. Filed under clap, applause, congrats and yay. Emoji 0.6.
  • Folding hand fan U+1FAAD. The other emoji CLDR files under clap. Emoji 15.0.
  • Grinning face with big eyes U+1F603. Shares yay with Clapping hands. Emoji 0.6.
  • Japanese β€œcongratulations” button U+3297 U+FE0F. Shares congratulations with Clapping hands. Emoji 0.6.
  • Open hands U+1F450. Two open palms: filed under jazz. Emoji 0.6.
  • Raising hands U+1F64C. Both hands in the air: filed under praise and hooray, not under clap. Emoji 0.6.
  • Thumbs up U+1F44D. Approval with one hand: filed under good and yes. Emoji 0.6.

Clapping faces in plain text 9

  • (*^.^)// Two slashes for hands, meeting beside the face
  • (*^.^)// (*^.^)// (*^.^)// A whole row clapping
  • (*^.^)γƒŽγƒŽ Two katakana strokes for hands
  • (*^.^)γƒŽγƒŽ ぱけぱけ With the Japanese sound of clapping
  • (*^.^)// clap clap With the sound
  • *claps* (*^.^)// Said out loud, between asterisks
  • (e_e)// ... // A slow clap: long gaps between the hands
  • (*o.o)// Clapping, wide-eyed
  • (*^u^)// encore Asking for one more

Applause in Japanese and Korean 4

  • ぱけぱけ The sound of clapping in Japanese: also of crackling
  • 拍手 Japanese for applause, read hakushu
  • λ°•μˆ˜ Korean for a clap or applause, from the same two characters as the Japanese word
  • 짝짝 The sound of clapping in Korean
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A clap between every word 3

  • nicely πŸ‘ done πŸ‘ team Three words, two claps
  • put πŸ‘ a πŸ‘ clap πŸ‘ between πŸ‘ every πŸ‘ word The pattern: type your own words over these
  • what πŸ‘ a πŸ‘ show After a performance

Clapping combos 12

  • After the recital Violin, then clapping hands.
  • Before the big reveal Drum, then clapping hands.
  • Cap and gown Graduation cap, then clapping hands.
  • Curtain call Bouquet, then performing arts, then clapping hands.
  • Encore Clapping hands, then repeat button.
  • For the winners Trophy, then clapping hands.
  • Golf clap Flag in hole, then clapping hands. Quiet applause.
  • Karaoke hero Microphone, then clapping hands.
  • That's a wrap Clapper board, then clapping hands.
  • Top grades Clapping hands, then hundred points.
  • Turtle applause Turtle, then clapping hands.
  • Whole hall standing Person standing, then clapping hands, then clapping hands, then clapping hands.

How this list was compiled: The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Clapping hands is U+1F44F, Emoji 0.6. CLDR files two emoji under clap and one under applause; the first group opens with the four emoji filed under clap, applause, congrats, congratulations or yay, then three more hands with the CLDR words that tie them to cheering. Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). The words: Japanese 拍手 for applause (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%8B%8D%E6%89%8B and https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%8B%8D%E6%89%8B), ぱけぱけ for the sound of clapping (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%B1%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B1%E3%81%A1, and the JMdict dictionary, read through https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%B1%E3%81%A1%E3%81%B1%E3%81%A1, CC BY-SA 4.0), Korean λ°•μˆ˜ for applause (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EB%B0%95%EC%88%98 and https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EB%B0%95%EC%88%98) and 짝짝 for the sound of clapping (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EC%A7%9D%EC%A7%9D, and the Korean learners’ dictionary of the National Institute of Korean Language, https://krdict.korean.go.kr/eng/dicMarinerSearch/search?nation=eng&nationCode=6&ParaWordNo=&mainSearchWord=%EC%A7%9D%EC%A7%9D, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike); Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Slow clap and golf clap are as Wiktionary defines them (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slow_clap, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/golf_clap). What applause is, from Wikipedia, Applause (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applause, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. The nine text faces, the three lines and the combo names are this site's own work. All sources were read on 2 October 2026. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text faces and drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wiktionary and Wikipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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