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Handshake: medium skin tone, light skin tone

Handshake: medium skin tone, light skin tone Emoji

People

Two hands clasping together, with one hand showing a medium skin tone and the other a light skin tone. This version represents a meeting of two people with different backgrounds coming together to reach an understanding.

Usage Context

Used to signal a finalized deal, a successful negotiation, or a friendly greeting. It is frequently sent after a conversation to confirm that both parties are on the same page. It often serves as a follow-up to emojis like 🤝 or ✅ to emphasize mutual consent.

History

The handshake emoji was originally standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Multi-skin tone variations were added later as part of the Unicode 14.0 update in 2021, using a sequence of two hand characters joined by a zero-width joiner to allow for more diverse and inclusive representation in digital communication.

Details

Glyph
🫱🏽‍🫲🏻
Unicode
U+1FAF1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fd_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
Tags
agreementdealhandmeetingshakecooperationpartnershipcollaborationdiversehandshake

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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