🤝Handshaking emoji

🤝 Handshake

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🤝 Emoji meaning

It's a deal! Greeting, agreement, contract, handshake.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Variants
  4.  Emoji History
  5.  Similar Emojis
  6.  Platforms
  7.  Emoji Details
  8.  Comments

🤝 Meaning

Shake on it! The handshake can stand for a greeting or farewell, a sign of agreement or for a deal. Two people are holding hands or, in a figurative sense, to give someone a helping hand.

Examples

  • Deal! 🤝
  • Then we have a deal. 🤝
  • Does that work for you? 🤝

Learn more about the meaning

Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Handshake
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Folded hands

Handshake vs folded hands; both signal agreement, trust, or mutual support.

Same Emotion

Handshake
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Folded hands

Folded hands vs handshake; both can be used as thanks, request, or agreement gestures.

Same Shape

Handshake
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Clapping hands

Handshake vs clapping; both can close a deal or celebrate cooperation.

Variants

Skin tones
Handshake
Handshake: light skin tone
Handshake: medium-light skin tone
Handshake: medium skin tone
Handshake: medium-dark skin tone
Handshake: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Handshake” was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016 and added to Emoji 3.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ deal

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ handshake + agreement + meeting + shake + hand

Similar emojis from "Hands and Body Parts"

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Hands and Body Parts
👋 Waving hand 🤚 Raised back of hand 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed ✋ Raised hand 🖖 Vulcan salute 🫱 Rightwards hand 🫲 Leftwards hand 🫴 Palm up hand 🫳 Palm down hand 🫷 Leftwards pushing hand 🫸 Rightwards pushing hand 👌 OK hand 🤌 Pinched fingers 🤏 Pinching hand ✌️ Victory hand 🤞 Crossed fingers 🫰 Hand with index finger and thumb crossed 🤟 Love-you gesture 🤘 Sign of the horns 🤙 Call me hand 👈 Backhand index pointing left 👉 Backhand index pointing right 👆 Backhand index pointing up 🖕 Middle finger 👇 Backhand index pointing down ☝️ Index pointing up 🫵 Index pointing at the viewer 👍 Thumbs up 👎 Thumbs down 👊 Oncoming fist ✊ Raised fist 🤛 Left-facing fist 🤜 Right-facing fist 👏 Clapping hands 🙌 Raising hands 🫶 Heart hands 👐 Open hands 🤲 Palms up together 🤝 Handshake 🙏 Folded hands ✍️ Writing hand 💅 Nail polish 🤳 Selfie 💪 Flexed biceps 🦾 Mechanical arm 🦿 Mechanical leg 🦵 Leg 🦶 Foot 👂 Ear 🦻 Ear with hearing aid 👃 Nose 🧠 Brain 🫀 Anatomical heart 🫁 Lungs 🦷 Tooth 🦴 Bone 👀 Eyes 👁️ Eye 👅 Tongue 👄 Mouth 🫦 Biting lip 👣 Footprints 🫆 Fingerprint 🧬 Dna 🩸 Drop of blood
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Comments

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  • Deal!