Handshake: light skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A graphical representation of two hands clasped in a firm handshake, combining a light skin tone on the left and a medium-dark skin tone on the right. The image captures the universal physical gesture of greeting, agreement, or sealing a pact between two people.
Usage Context
Used to confirm a deal, express solidarity, or signal the successful completion of a negotiation. It is frequently employed in professional messaging or personal chats to show mutual respect, often following a positive discussion similar to the sentiment conveyed by 🤝.
History
The multi-skin tone handshake was introduced in Emoji 14.0 in 2021 as part of a technical expansion by the Unicode Consortium to support diverse, skin-tone-specific combinations for human-centric interactions, moving away from the limited yellow-only versions of earlier internet eras.
Details
Glyph
🫱🏻🫲🏾
Unicode
U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fb_200d_1faf2_1f3fe:
HTML Entity
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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
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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