Men holding hands: medium-dark skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two men standing side-by-side, joined by a handshake emoji in the middle. The first figure features a medium-dark skin tone, while the second figure displays a dark skin tone.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent romantic relationships, deep friendships, or brotherhood between two men. It is often sent to celebrate milestones like anniversaries or to express solidarity between friends, similar to how people use 👫 or 👬.

History

This emoji was made possible by the implementation of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences, which allow multiple individual characters to be combined into a single, complex glyph. It was officially added to the Unicode standard to provide more inclusive representation for diverse couples and male partnerships following high demand for more granular skin tone options.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏿

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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