A tone is a separate character — one of five modifiers between U+1F3FB and U+1F3FF — placed immediately after a supported emoji. 👋 plus U+1F3FD is 👋🏽. The modifier is not an emoji in its own right and has no meaning on its own.
Only sequences Unicode lists are shown here. A modifier can technically be appended to any character, but the result is undefined: on 🐶 you would get a dog followed by a colour patch. That is why this page never generates combinations the standard does not define.
Sets from Unicode 17.0.0 emoji-test.txt. Names from CLDR 48.2.0.
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Frequently asked questions
How many emojis support skin tones?
330 entries in Unicode 17.0.0 accept a skin tone modifier — mostly hands, people and body parts. Everything else does not, and adding a modifier to those produces the base emoji followed by a visible colour swatch.
Why do some emojis take two skin tones?
Sequences with more than one person can carry a tone per person — people holding hands, for example. Unicode publishes the recommended combinations; this page shows the single-tone sets, and each emoji's own page lists its full variant list.
Can I set a default tone?
Yes. Choose one in settings and it is applied across the site to the emojis that support it, saved in this browser. It does not change what anybody else sees.
Will my chosen tone display correctly everywhere?
The tone modifiers have been in Unicode since 2015 and are very widely supported. As with any emoji, the artwork differs between platforms, but the sequence you copy is the same everywhere.