Handshake: medium skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two hands clasping together, representing a medium skin tone hand meeting a dark skin tone hand. This glyph highlights the cooperative gesture of two different individuals joining forces.

Usage Context

Used to confirm a deal, express gratitude, or show support between diverse parties. It acts as a digital signal of an agreement, common in professional chats or friendly negotiations. It is frequently sent alongside celebratory icons like 🤝 or 🎉 to mark the successful completion of a task.

History

Handshake variants with diverse skin tones were introduced in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0. This update was a major push by the Unicode Consortium to improve representation, as previous versions only featured a generic yellow hand. The development relied on a new implementation method where two separate emoji components are joined by a zero-width joiner to create a single, multi-toned character.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏽‍🫲🏿

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fd_200d_1faf2_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83E;&#xDEF2;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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

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