🤝
🤝 Handshake
Also known as: Shaking Hands
Unicode: U+1F91D
Description
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.
Image Variants

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Version Information
Emoji Version:3.0
Unicode Version:9.0
Keywords
agreementhandhandshakemeetingshake
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :handshake: | |
GitHub | :handshake: | |
Slack | :handshake: | |
Discord | :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)