Skin Tone Variants
Handshake: Light Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone is the Unicode character ๐ซฑ๐ปโ๐ซฒ๐ฟ at codepoint U+1FAF1 in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard โ or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Handshake: Light Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone
To use the Handshake: Light Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone symbol (๐ซฑ๐ปโ๐ซฒ๐ฟ) in HTML, insert the
entity 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1FAF1';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1FAF1}' evaluates to ๐ซฑ๐ปโ๐ซฒ๐ฟ. In Python source, write '\U0001FAF1'.
The character encodes to F0 9F AB B1 as UTF-8 bytes and D83E DEF1 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 129777.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.