🤝 Meaning – Handshake Emoji

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The image of two hands holding each other in a strong grip is the emoji symbol for a handshake. This can either represent a form of greeting, generally between men, or as a sign of agreement, for instance a deal or plan agreed upon by both sides. Handshake Emoji can mean "Hello!" or "I am on your side!" or "Let's shake on that!".

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Handshake Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F91D
Unicode name: Handshake
Category: Smileys & People / Body
Keywords: hand
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F91D
Decimal HTML Entity: 🤝
Hex HTML Entity: 🤝
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83E 0xDD1D
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handshake
Version: Unicode 9.0
Year: 2016 (see all emoji of 2016)

Raised Fist

Hand with Fingers Splayed

Person Raising Hand

Raised Back of Hand

Person Gesturing No

Man and Woman Holding Hands

Person Tipping Hand

Writing Hand

Thumbs Down

Two Women Holding Hands

Two Men Holding Hands

Face with Hand Over Mouth

Love-You Gesture

Person Gesturing Ok

Gloves

🌐 Handshake Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Handschlag	Hände, Händeschütteln, Vereinbarung
Français	poignée de main	mains, poignée, présentation, rencontre
Русский	рукопожатие	встреча, договорились, согласие
Español	apretón de manos	acuerdo, apretón, manos
Italiano	stretta di mano	conoscere, mano, presentarsi
Português	aperto de mãos	aperto, combinado, cumprimento, mãos
Polski	uścisk dłoni	powitanie, spotkanie, uścisk, zgoda

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How to type Handshake Emoji

There are number of methods to type Handshake Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 🤝 emoji

It's very easy to get Handshake Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 🤝 meaning and look at 🤝 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

🤝 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.