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

People

Two hands clasping together, with the left hand displaying a medium-light skin tone and the right hand displaying a medium-dark skin tone. It captures the moment of a physical connection between two different people, typically associated with making a promise or closing a business transaction.

Usage Context

Used to signal a successful negotiation, a sign of mutual respect, or a friendly greeting. Because this variation features two distinct skin tones, it is frequently used to represent diversity, cooperation, and bridging gaps between different groups, much like the 🤝 base emoji.

History

The handshake icon has been a staple of digital communication since the early days of graphical chat interfaces. While the original yellow-toned handshake dates back to the early 2010s, this multi-skin-tone version was introduced in Emoji 14.0 in 2021 to allow users to better represent inclusive and diverse real-world interactions.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏼‍🫲🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fc_200d_1faf2_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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

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

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