🤝

🤝 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

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:
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)