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

People

Two hands clasping together, representing a medium skin tone and a medium-dark skin tone. The hands are positioned in a standard greeting or sealing of an agreement.

Usage Context

Used to signal a finalized deal, a respectful greeting, or a compromise between two parties. This multi-skin tone version allows users to represent diverse partnerships or inclusive collaborations, often appearing alongside 🤝 or 🙌 to emphasize teamwork.

History

This multi-skin tone variant was introduced in Unicode 14.0 in 2021 as part of an initiative to provide more diverse representations of human interaction, moving beyond the standard yellow-only hand symbols that characterized early emoji sets.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fd_200d_1faf2_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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