Handshake emoji
Type :handshake: · People & body
Unicode name Handshake · added in Emoji 3.0, 2016
What 🤝 means
A handshake: a deal, an agreement, a truce. In work threads it closes a negotiation the way ✅ closes a task.
If you are trying to read into it
A handshake: agreement, a deal, a truce. In a work thread it closes a negotiation the way ✅ closes a task, and it carries no warmth beyond mutual respect, which is sometimes exactly right.
How to type 🤝 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :hand
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🤝 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:handshake: Search terms
Also found by searching agreement, deal, hand, meeting, shake.
Skin tones for 🤝
Handshake comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 🤝 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 🤝🏻 light 🤝🏼 medium-light 🤝🏽 medium 🤝🏾 medium-dark 🤝🏿 dark 🤝 in HTML, CSS and code
Handshake is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F91D
- HTML
- 🤝
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F91D}'
- CSS content
- "\1F91D"
- Python
- '\U0001F91D'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%A4%9D
Related emojis
:rightwards_hand: 🫲 :leftwards_hand: 👋 :wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫴 :palm_up: 👌 :ok_hand: 🤌 :pinch: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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