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

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

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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