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

People

Two hands gripping each other in a firm handshake, showing a mix of medium-light and light skin tones. This depicts a classic gesture of greeting, agreement, or a finalized business arrangement.

Usage Context

Used to signal that a deal has been struck, a compromise has been reached, or to welcome someone new. It is the go-to emoji for virtual professional networking or closing a chat conversation on a positive note. It is frequently sent alongside 🤝 or ✅ to confirm that plans are officially set.

History

Handshake variants with diverse skin tones were introduced in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0. This update was a major push to allow users to represent the actual demographics involved in a multi-party interaction, moving past the generic yellow hands that had been the standard since the early days of mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏼‍🫲🏻

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fc_200d_1faf2_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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