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🤝Handshake Emoji
🤝 handshake — U+1F91D, added in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Unicode groups it with the other 7 hands emojis under People & Body.
What 🤝 handshake means
Two-handed gestures, mostly generous ones: applause, celebration, gratitude, care. 🙏 is the most argued-over emoji here - Unicode names it folded hands and most people read it as prayer or thank you, though the high-five reading has never quite died. 🫶 heart hands only arrived in 2021, long after the gesture became standard in selfies.
Unicode tags this one agreement, deal and hand and files it under People & Body → Hands.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F91D | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🤝 | |
| HTML decimal | 🤝 | |
| CSS | \1F91D | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F91D} | |
| Python | \U0001F91D | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD1D | |
| Rust | \u{1f91d} | |
| Swift | \u{1F91D} | |
| PHP | \u{1F91D} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A4%9D | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 9D | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD1D | |
| Base64 | 8J+knQ== | |
| Decimal | 129309 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 3.0 (2016) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🤝 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🤝
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “handshake”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “agreement”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f91dand Enter. - HTML — paste
🤝.
How 🤝 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🤝Apple
- 🤝Segoe
- 🤝Noto
- 🤝System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🤝 handshake emoji mean?+
🤝 is the handshake emoji, tagged agreement, deal and hand. Two-handed gestures, mostly generous ones: applause, celebration, gratitude, care. 🙏 is the most argued-over emoji here - Unicode names it folded hands and most people read it as prayer or thank you, though the high-five reading has never quite died. 🫶 heart hands only arrived in 2021, long after the gesture became standard in selfies.
What is the Unicode code for 🤝?+
handshake is U+1F91D. In HTML that is 🤝, in CSS \1F91D, and in JavaScript \u{1F91D}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🤝 emoji added?+
handshake got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Hands in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤝 handshake.