People holding hands: dark skin tone, light skin tone

People holding hands: dark skin tone, light skin tone Emoji

People

Two people standing side-by-side with their hands joined. The person on the left features a dark skin tone, while the person on the right features a light skin tone.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent diverse relationships, including friendships, partnerships, and social connections between people of different backgrounds. It is frequently sent to show solidarity, togetherness, or the idea of two people being a team. It serves as an inclusive counterpart to more specific pairing emojis like ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ’‹โ€๐Ÿ‘จ or ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘.

History

The ability to customize skin tones for multi-person emojis was added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. This update was a major technical shift in the standard, allowing users to move away from the default yellow figures to represent the specific diversity of their own personal relationships.

Details

Glyph
๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿฟโ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿป
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory family
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Tags
baebestiebffcoupledatingflirtfriendshandholdpeopletwinsdiversityinclusiontogethernesspartnership

Google Noto License

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

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