Skin Tone Variants
About Handshake: Dark Skin Tone, Light Skin Tone
Handshake: Dark Skin Tone, Light Skin Tone is the Unicode character 🫱🏿🫲🏻 at codepoint U+1FAF1 in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Handshake: Dark Skin Tone, Light Skin Tone
To use the Handshake: Dark Skin Tone, Light Skin Tone symbol (🫱🏿🫲🏻) 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 🫱🏿🫲🏻. 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.