Handshake: medium-dark skin tone, light skin tone Emoji

People

Two hands gripping each other in a firm handshake, depicted with one hand featuring a medium-dark skin tone and the other a light skin tone. The design captures a classic moment of connection or professional exchange.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for signaling a finalized deal, a friendly greeting, or a compromise between two parties. It is frequently used in business chats, casual conversations, or whenever someone wants to acknowledge a successful collaboration, often following a celebratory emoji like 🤝 or ✅.

History

Handshake variants with diverse skin tones were introduced in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. The ability to mix skin tones was a major technical update to the Unicode standard, moving away from single-color icons toward representations that reflect real-world human interactions and inclusive digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏾‍🫲🏻

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fe_200d_1faf2_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDEF2;&#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

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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