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

People

Two hands gripping each other in a firm handshake, depicted with one hand featuring a medium-dark skin tone and the other a light skin tone. The design captures a classic moment of connection or professional exchange.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for signaling a finalized deal, a friendly greeting, or a compromise between two parties. It is frequently used in business chats, casual conversations, or whenever someone wants to acknowledge a successful collaboration, often following a celebratory emoji like 🤝 or ✅.

History

Handshake variants with diverse skin tones were introduced in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. The ability to mix skin tones was a major technical update to the Unicode standard, moving away from single-color icons toward representations that reflect real-world human interactions and inclusive digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏾‍🫲🏻

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fe_200d_1faf2_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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