Handshake: light skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

A side-by-side depiction of two hands joined in a grip, featuring a light skin tone on the left and a medium skin tone on the right. This represents a tactile sign of partnership, greeting, or formal resolution between two people of different backgrounds.

Usage Context

Used to signal a finalized deal, a polite greeting, or the act of finding common ground. It is frequently sent to confirm a plans, express professional camaraderie, or acknowledge a mutual agreement, much like the standard 🤝.

History

The handshake emoji was originally a single character, but the ability to combine skin tones was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. This update was a major technical shift to allow more inclusive representation, moving away from the default yellow hands that characterized early internet communication.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏻‍🫲🏽

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fb_200d_1faf2_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDEF2;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

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