Handshake

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Mixed skin tones

Shortcode
:handshake:
Unicode
U+1F91D
HTML
🤝
CSS
\1F91D
JavaScript
"\u{1F91D}"
URL
%F0%9F%A4%9D

agreementdealhandmeetingshake

What ๐Ÿค means

Two hands shaking. ๐Ÿค means a deal, an agreement, a partnership or a friendly meeting.

Use it to close a deal, welcome a collaborator or say "nice to meet you." In memes, it marks two unlikely groups who share common ground. Two-tone handshakes come from ๐Ÿซฑ and ๐Ÿซฒ joined in one sequence.

Facts

Handshake ๐Ÿค is an emoji in the people and body category, under hands. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. It comes in 25 skin tone combinations, one tone for each person. One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :handshake:. People also look for it with words like โ€œagreementโ€, โ€œdealโ€, โ€œhandโ€, or โ€œmeetingโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
  2. 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.0)๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘
  3. 2021Skin tones added (Emoji 14.0)
  4. 2021Mixed skin tones added, one tone per person (Emoji 14.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. handshake, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. handshake, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  3. handshake, Google (Noto) design from 20222022
  4. handshake, Google (Noto) design from 20242024

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. handshake, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  2. handshake, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20222022

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 3.0