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

People

Two hands clasping together to form a handshake, featuring one hand with a medium skin tone and the other with a medium-light skin tone. It represents the meeting of two different people coming together to form a mutual pact.

Usage Context

Used to confirm a deal, express gratitude, or show solidarity between different groups. It is frequently sent after reaching a compromise or sealing a bargain, acting as a digital alternative to a physical contract. It is often used alongside emojis like 🤝 or ✅ to finalize a conversation.

History

This variation is part of the expanded skin tone support introduced in Unicode 14.0 in 2021. The multi-colored handshake was specifically engineered to allow users to represent diverse human interactions and cross-cultural collaborations that standard single-tone emojis could not capture.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏽‍🫲🏼

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fd_200d_1faf2_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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