Woman and man holding hands: light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji
People
A pair of figures, one a woman and one a man, standing side-by-side with their hands clasped. This version uses specific skin tone modifiers to represent a light-skinned woman alongside a dark-skinned man.
Usage Context
Used to denote a romantic relationship, a mixed-race couple, or a general statement about partnership. It serves as a visual shorthand for being together, dating, or marriage. Users often deploy this alongside other relationship-focused icons like โค๏ธ or ๐ to emphasize a connection between two people.
History
Hand-holding couple emojis were originally represented as a single, indivisible character. The ability to combine specific gender and skin tone variants was introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to provide more inclusive representation for the diverse range of human relationships found globally.
Details
Glyph
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐คโ๐จ๐ฟ
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3ff:
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. ยฉ 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.