🤝 Handshake

Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a cordial greeting between friends or associates. As of late 2021's Emoji 14.0 recommendations, this emoji design has multiple skin tone modifier options. Certain platforms did, however, support a small number of single skin tone options for the handshake emoji prior to 2021 (e.g. both Google and Samsung in 2017). View all handshake emojis.

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🤝 Handshake

Also known as: Shaking Hands

Unicode: U+1F91D

Image Variants

Handshake 3D

3D

Handshake Color

Color

Handshake Flat

Flat

Handshake High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:3.0
Unicode Version:9.0

Keywords

agreementhandhandshakemeetingshake

Shortcodes

PlatformShortcodeAction
Emojipedia:handshake:
Discord:shaking_hands:

Additional Information

Category:Supplemental Symbols And Pictographs -> Hand symbols
Definition:

Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a cordial greeting between friends or associates. Handshake was approved as part of Uni http://emojipedia.org/handshake/

Verbs:
  • Find, usually by accident.
  • To find, usually by accident.
  • To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
  • To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
  • Come together
  • To come together with someone by accident.
  • Move or cause to move back and forth
Nouns:
  • A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp one of each other's like hands, in most cases accompanied by a brief up and down movement of the grasped hands.
  • Grasping of hands by two people.
  • Grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
  • A process that two devices use to begin communicating. One device sends a message to the other, signaling that it wants to communicate. A number of messages are exchanged to establish the rules they will use for communication.
  • In information technology, telecommunications, and related fields, handshaking is an automated process of negotiation that dynamically sets parameters of a communications channel established between two entities before normal communication over the channel begins.
  • The grasping and shaking of a person's hand, often used when being introduced or making an agreement.
  • The grasping of hands by two people when greeting, leave-taking, or making an agreement.
  • The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
  • The oral or written statement of an exchange of promises.
  • That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in primates (including humans).
  • The part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
  • The zoological term for the distal portion of the forelimb of an animal (including the human hand)