right-facing fist: medium skin tone
Unicode: 1F91C 1F3FD
Description
A handshake emoji, specifically showing a hand with a medium skin tone shaking another hand.
Group:
People & Body > hand-fingers-closed
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents agreement, greeting, partnership, successful negotiation, friendship, or reconciliation.
Backstory
The handshake emoji (specifically U+1F91D HANDSHAKE) was introduced in Unicode 8.0 (2015). Before this, individual hands with various skin tones were available, but the explicit handshake symbol unified the concept. The combination of two hand emojis (like two separate hands) often predated the single handshake emoji to connote the same meaning. The skin tone modifiers (like U+1F3FD for medium skin tone) were introduced with Unicode 8.0 allowing for greater representation.
Usage Examples
- Confirming an agreement: 'Deal! 🤝🏽'
- Greeting someone formally: 'Nice to meet you! 🤝🏽'
- Showing reconciliation: 'Let's put our differences aside. 🤝🏽'
- Celebrating a partnership: 'Successful collaboration! 🤝🏽'
- Expressing mutual understanding: 'We're on the same page. 🤝🏽'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Widely used for formal greetings, business agreements, or sealing a deal. Also signifies friendship and mutual understanding.
East Asian culture:
Less common as a direct greeting compared to bowing, but understood as a symbol of agreement or formal interaction, especially in business contexts. Can represent mutual respect.