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

People

A graphical representation of two hands clasped in a firm handshake, combining a light skin tone on the left and a medium-dark skin tone on the right. The image captures the universal physical gesture of greeting, agreement, or sealing a pact between two people.

Usage Context

Used to confirm a deal, express solidarity, or signal the successful completion of a negotiation. It is frequently employed in professional messaging or personal chats to show mutual respect, often following a positive discussion similar to the sentiment conveyed by 🤝.

History

The multi-skin tone handshake was introduced in Emoji 14.0 in 2021 as part of a technical expansion by the Unicode Consortium to support diverse, skin-tone-specific combinations for human-centric interactions, moving away from the limited yellow-only versions of earlier internet eras.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏻‍🫲🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fb_200d_1faf2_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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