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

People

Two hands clasping together, representing a dark skin tone and a medium-dark skin tone. The hands are positioned horizontally as if locking in a mutual agreement or a professional greeting.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to signify a deal being struck, a resolution to a conflict, or a polite greeting between two people. It is a popular way to confirm arrangements in group chats or show solidarity after a successful collaboration. It is often used alongside emojis like 🤝 or ✅ to seal a promise.

History

While the basic handshake emoji dates back to early Unicode sets, the ability to modify skin tones for multi-person gestures became a major focus of Unicode 14.0 in 2021. This specific multi-skin tone combination was added to allow for more inclusive representation of diverse interpersonal connections across global messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏿‍🫲🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3ff_200d_1faf2_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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