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

People

Two individuals of different skin tones standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The figures are gender-neutral in appearance, representing a connection between two people of varying backgrounds.

Usage Context

Used to showcase partnership, friendship, or solidarity. People frequently use this to signal a close bond with a partner or best friend. It is often sent alongside hearts like ❤️ or 💕 to emphasize affection or commitment in a relationship.

History

This emoji was added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0. It was created to address a lack of diversity in digital communication, allowing users to accurately represent multicultural relationships and friendships through the combination of various skin tone modifiers.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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