handshake: light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

The handshake: light skin tone, dark skin tone emoji represents a person, body part, gesture, or human activity — this category is deliberately broad and detailed so that messaging can represent people, professions, and gestures with more accuracy and inclusivity than earlier, more limited emoji sets allowed.

Category context: The People & Body category is Unicode's largest emoji group, covering body parts, hand gestures, family compositions, professions, and activities — many of which support optional skin-tone modifiers to represent human diversity.

Cataloged under Hands within the People & Body category, handshake: light skin tone, dark skin tone is the 641st of 2418 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 14 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, this specific version includes a skin-tone modifier, meaning it is built by combining a base emoji with one of the five Fitzpatrick-scale skin-tone components introduced in Unicode 8.0. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1FAF1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAF2 U+1F3FF.

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