Skin Tone Variants
About Handshake: Light Skin Tone
Handshake: Light Skin Tone is the Unicode character 🤝🏻 at codepoint U+1F91D in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Handshake: Light Skin Tone
To use the Handshake: Light Skin Tone symbol (🤝🏻) in HTML, insert the
entity 🤝🏻 directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F91D';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F91D}' evaluates to 🤝🏻. In Python source, write '\U0001F91D'.
The character encodes to F0 9F A4 9D as UTF-8 bytes and D83E DD1D as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 129309.
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.