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

People

Two people standing side-by-side while holding hands. The person on the left features a medium skin tone, and the person on the right features a medium-dark skin tone. The design captures a gesture of companionship, support, or romantic partnership.

Usage Context

Used to represent friendships, romantic couples, or a show of solidarity. It is a popular choice for social media captions to highlight a relationship or a shared experience. It acts as a more inclusive alternative to gender-specific pairings like 👩‍❤️‍👨 or 👨‍❤️‍👨, allowing for a neutral representation of human connection.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the effort to make Unicode more representative of human diversity. It relies on the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines separate character codes to render as a single image—a technical standard that has allowed for thousands of new skin tone and gender combinations since 2019.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

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

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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