Handshake: medium-dark skin tone, light skin tone Emoji
People
Two hands gripping each other in a firm handshake, depicted with one hand featuring a medium-dark skin tone and the other a light skin tone. The design captures a classic moment of connection or professional exchange.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to choice for signaling a finalized deal, a friendly greeting, or a compromise between two parties. It is frequently used in business chats, casual conversations, or whenever someone wants to acknowledge a successful collaboration, often following a celebratory emoji like 🤝 or ✅.
History
Handshake variants with diverse skin tones were introduced in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. The ability to mix skin tones was a major technical update to the Unicode standard, moving away from single-color icons toward representations that reflect real-world human interactions and inclusive digital communication.
Details
Glyph
🫱🏾🫲🏻
Unicode
U+1FAF1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fe_200d_1faf2_1f3fb:
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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