Handshake: light skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji
People
A side-by-side depiction of two hands joined in a grip, featuring a light skin tone on the left and a medium skin tone on the right. This represents a tactile sign of partnership, greeting, or formal resolution between two people of different backgrounds.
Usage Context
Used to signal a finalized deal, a polite greeting, or the act of finding common ground. It is frequently sent to confirm a plans, express professional camaraderie, or acknowledge a mutual agreement, much like the standard 🤝.
History
The handshake emoji was originally a single character, but the ability to combine skin tones was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. This update was a major technical shift to allow more inclusive representation, moving away from the default yellow hands that characterized early internet communication.
Details
Glyph
🫱🏻🫲🏽
Unicode
U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fb_200d_1faf2_1f3fd:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory hands
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
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