🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 Handshake: Light Skin Tone, Medium-Dark Skin Tone

What it means

The Handshake: Light Skin Tone, Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji 🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 is used around ideas like agreement, deal, hand, handshake and light skin tone.

Emoji render in the viewer’s own font, so the exact drawing differs between Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft — the sense above is what stays constant.

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Keywords

Search terms recorded for this emoji in Unicode CLDR.

agreement deal hand handshake light skin tone medium-dark skin tone meeting shake

Details

Hexa	1FAF1 1F3FB 200D 1FAF2 1F3FE
Codepoints	U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE
HTML (hex)	🫱🏻‍🫲🏾
HTML (decimal)	🫱🏻‍🫲🏾
CLDR short name	handshake: light skin tone, medium-dark skin tone
Emoji version	Emoji 14.0 · 2021 →
Qualification	fully-qualified
Category	People & Body
Subcategory	hands
Sequence type	ZWJ sequence, Skin-tone sequence

Timeline

Emoji 14.0 · 2021Handshake: Light Skin Tone, Medium-Dark Skin Tone entered the standard as U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE, establishing the codepoint still used today.
TodayRendered across major platforms. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each draw it in their own style while preserving the same underlying character.

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