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

People

An image of two men standing side by side, holding hands, with a medium skin tone for one figure and a medium-light skin tone for the other. This glyph uses the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine two individual man emojis into a single connected image.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, brotherhood, or a romantic partnership between men of different skin tones. It is frequently sent to celebrate inclusive relationships or to show support for a partner or close friend. People often pair this with the heart emoji ❤️ or the folded hands emoji 🙏 to emphasize connection.

History

While the man emoji has been part of Unicode for decades, the ability to join two people holding hands with specific skin tone modifiers was finalized in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. This update marked a major shift in digital inclusivity, allowing users to represent diverse human relationships that were previously limited by generic icons.

Details

Glyph

👨🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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

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