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

People

A digital handshake involving two hands with different skin tones joined together. The left hand features a medium-dark tone, while the right hand displays a medium-light tone, meeting in the middle to signal a mutual connection.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to express agreement, confirm a business deal, or celebrate a successful negotiation between two parties. It is a common way to acknowledge a pact in text chats or to signal cooperation, often appearing alongside 🤝 or ✅ to emphasize that a compromise has been reached.

History

The handshake emoji was originally part of a single-tone set before Unicode expanded support for multi-skin-tone sequences in 2022. These complex sequences were developed to better represent diverse human interactions and interpersonal cooperation in global digital communications.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏾‍🫲🏼

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fe_200d_1faf2_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

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

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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