Handshake: light skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A pair of hands coming together in a firm grasp, featuring a combination of a light skin tone on the left and a medium-light skin tone on the right. This icon depicts the universal gesture of greeting, reconciliation, or confirming a mutual pact.
Usage Context
Used to signal that a deal has been reached, a partnership is formed, or a dispute is settled. It serves as a digital way to seal an agreement, similar to the 🤝 emoji but with specific skin tone modifiers to acknowledge diversity in interpersonal interactions.
History
The handshake emoji was standardized in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. The ability to apply multi-skin tone modifiers was introduced much later in Emoji 14.0 in 2021, reflecting a push to make digital gestures more inclusive of the varied, real-world partnerships people form every day.
Details
Glyph
🫱🏻🫲🏼
Unicode
U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fb_200d_1faf2_1f3fc:
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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