Handshake: medium-dark skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji
People
A pair of hands coming together to perform a handshake, featuring a medium-dark skin tone on one hand and a dark skin tone on the other. This graphic depicts a firm, collaborative grasp between two individuals.
Usage Context
Used to signify an agreement, a successful negotiation, or a friendly greeting between people of different backgrounds. It serves as a digital way to seal a deal, show partnership, or confirm a common understanding. It is often used alongside emojis like 🤝 or ✅ to confirm that a plan is set in stone.
History
Handshake variants with diverse skin tones were introduced in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0. These additions were developed to reflect the inclusive nature of global communication, moving past the original singular, non-specific yellow handshake that had been a standard since the early days of Unicode implementation.
Details
Glyph
🫱🏾🫲🏿
Unicode
U+1FAF1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fe_200d_1faf2_1f3ff:
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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