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

People

Two hands clasping together, featuring a dark skin tone on the left and a medium-light skin tone on the right. This represents a handshake between two distinct individuals to show cooperation or a signed agreement.

Usage Context

Widely used to celebrate a successful negotiation, show support for a friend, or confirm that a plan is finalized. It is frequently sent alongside 🤝 or ✅ to emphasize that a deal is official.

History

Handshake variants were part of the ongoing push for diverse representation in the Unicode standard. This specific combination arrived in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0, following technical updates that finally allowed for the 'handshake' base emoji to support independent skin tone modifiers for each hand.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏿‍🫲🏼

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3ff_200d_1faf2_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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