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A firm handshake is a meaningful, professional way to greet each other or come to an agreement in the real world, but does the 🤝 (handshake) emoji mean the same things in the digital world? If you’re tentative about using 🤝 because you’re not sure if it has a secret meaning, we’ve got you covered. In this article, we’ll go over every meaning of the 🤝 emoji over text or online, plus show you how to respond to and customize it. You’ll be shaking digital hands like a pro in no time!
Things You Should Know
- The 🤝 emoji represents the same ideas as a real-life handshake—it can be a greeting, a sign of an agreement, or a symbol for a truce.
- In almost every case, respond to the 🤝 emoji by sending another one back. This shows you acknowledge and reciprocate the greeting, agreement, or truce.
- Tap and hold the 🤝 emoji to change the skin tone of either or both hands and symbolize a handshake between 2 different people.
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- Remember that emojis are used lightheartedly or comically. If you need to resolve a serious dispute, leave the emojis out of your messages (and consider a call or a face-to-face chat instead).Thanks
- The handshake emoji is also known as the “handshaking emoji” or “shaking hands emoji.”Thanks
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