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

People

A pair of hands coming together in a firm grasp, featuring a combination of a light skin tone on the left and a medium-light skin tone on the right. This icon depicts the universal gesture of greeting, reconciliation, or confirming a mutual pact.

Usage Context

Used to signal that a deal has been reached, a partnership is formed, or a dispute is settled. It serves as a digital way to seal an agreement, similar to the 🤝 emoji but with specific skin tone modifiers to acknowledge diversity in interpersonal interactions.

History

The handshake emoji was standardized in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. The ability to apply multi-skin tone modifiers was introduced much later in Emoji 14.0 in 2021, reflecting a push to make digital gestures more inclusive of the varied, real-world partnerships people form every day.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fb_200d_1faf2_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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