The "🤝🏾" emote, also known as the Handshake + Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-5 emote, depicts two hands clasped together in a handshake, with a medium-dark skin tone. It is commonly used to represent unity, agreement, and friendship between people of different races or ethnicities. The Fitzpatrick Type-5 modifier refers to a standardized system for representing skin tones in emojis, which includes six different shades ranging from light to dark.