🤝 "handshake" emoji (copy and paste)
handshake
Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a cordial greeting between friends or associates.
Meaning of the handshake Emoji
Indicates a cordial greeting between friends or associates. Mixed skin tone support was approved in September 2021, with multiple skin tone modifier options available as of Emoji 14.0 recommendations (late 2021). Certain platforms supported single skin tone options prior to 2021 (e.g., Google and Samsung in 2017). This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Usage Examples
- Sealing the deal 🤝
- Great to meet you 🤝
- Agreement reached 🤝
- Partners in this venture 🤝
- Cordial greeting 🤝
Alternative Names
handshake, agreement, greeting
Related Word Associations
greeting, agreement, deal, partnership, cordial
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 🤝 handshake emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F91D
- Version:
- Emoji E3.0
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :handshake: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :handshake: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :handshake: |
| HTML Dec | 🤝 |
| HTML Hex | 🤝 |
| CSS | \01F91D |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001F91D |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDD1D |
| Perl | \x{1F91D} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F91D} |
| Punycode | xn--4q9h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%A4%9D |
| Unicode 9.0 (2016), Emoji 3.0 (2016). | |
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