Handshake: light skin tone Emoji

People

A pair of hands gripped together in a firm clasp, rendered with a light skin tone. It portrays the physical act of shaking hands to solidify a pact or greet someone.

Usage Context

Used to signal that a deal has been struck, a compromise has been reached, or a successful partnership has begun. It serves as a digital way to seal an agreement or show solidarity. People often use it alongside 🤝 or ✅ to confirm that a project is officially a go.

History

Handshake emojis became a staple of modern communication as a way to simulate professional human interaction in chat windows. This specific skin-tone variant was added in 2017 with Unicode 10.0, allowing users to better represent their own identity during negotiations and greetings.

Details

Glyph

🤝🏻

Unicode

U+1F91D U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91d_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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