What does handshake 🤝 Mean? Copy/Paste Guide
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What does 🤝 handshake Mean?
🤝 shows two hands clasped and means agreement, a closed deal, or mutual respect: "sent the contract, looking forward to it 🤝". It also works as a warm sign-off between people who aren't close enough for hearts — colleagues, clients, teammates. A distinct online use is "we're on the same page", dropped alone as a reply to signal you fully agree.
- 💡General Use: handshake
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
Added in Unicode 9.0 (2016), it originally allowed only a single skin tone for both hands; Unicode 14.0 in 2021 finally added mixed-skin-tone handshakes, one of the more requested inclusivity fixes in the standard. It also anchors the "handshake meme" format, in which two labelled arms grip to show what two different groups have in common — a layout that spread from Twitter into brand marketing. On LinkedIn it's near-boilerplate, which is exactly why it can read as corporate filler if you use it on every message.
How 🤝 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the handshake emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use handshake?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 🤝
Messaging
Hey, check this out 🤝
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 🤝
Status
Feeling 🤝 today
How to Type handshake on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "handshake"
- Select 🤝
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "handshake"
- Select 🤝
handshake HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | handshake | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F91D | |
| HTML Entity | 🤝 | |
| HTML Hex | 🤝 | |
| CSS Content | \01F91D | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F91D} | |
| Shortcode (Discord, Slack, GitHub) | :handshake: | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 3.0 | |
| Year Added | 2016 | |
| Skin Tone Support | Yes |
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Graphics come from open-licensed sets: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0, Twitter/X), Noto Color Emoji (Apache 2.0, Google) and OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free to use with attribution.
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