People holding hands: medium-light skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
Two individuals of different skin tones standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The emoji features a person with a medium-light skin tone on the left and a person with a medium-dark skin tone on the right, joined by a central hand-holding icon.
Usage Context
Used to represent platonic friendship, romantic relationships, or general camaraderie between two people of diverse backgrounds. It is frequently used in social media bios or captions to celebrate partnerships, dating, or close bonds, often appearing alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize connection and inclusivity.
History
This emoji was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.0 update in 2019. It reflects a major push by the Unicode Consortium to increase human diversity in digital communication by allowing users to combine distinct skin tone modifiers for individual figures within a single character sequence.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏼🤝🧑🏾
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:
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
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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