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π Clapping hands
People & Body
Keywords
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What Clapping hands means and when to use it
Applause β but just as often, slow sarcastic clapping
- Congratulating someone on a real achievement
- Congratulating someone ironically on an obviously bad decision
Watch out Genuinely ambiguous. The sarcastic reading dominates on X and in group chats; the sincere reading survives in messages to family.
How to use it Click the copy button above to grab π, then paste it into iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, Instagram, X or any text field. Emoji are standard Unicode characters, so they work everywhere β iOS, Android and Windows each draw them in their own style.
Display support This emoji was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010). It renders on iOS 6 and later, and on Android 4.4 and later β older systems show a box or a black-and-white glyph.
Design comparison
Your phone shows its built-in artwork. Below is how open-source emoji sets draw the same character (images are bundled with the site, no external requests):
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