Woman and man holding hands: light skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a woman with a light skin tone standing next to a man with a medium-dark skin tone, with both individuals clasping hands. The design displays two distinct people joined by a handshake icon to represent a singular connection.

Usage Context

Used to denote romantic relationships, friendships, or a pairing of two people. It serves as a visual shorthand for being a couple, attending an event together, or showing public displays of affection. It is frequently sent alongside ❤️ or 😊 to emphasize a positive bond between two parties.

History

This emoji represents the expansion of Unicode’s ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences, which allow multiple individual emoji to be combined into a single, cohesive character. Introduced as part of the effort to better reflect human diversity, these combination emojis replaced the older, more limited set of generic couple icons that lacked skin tone variety.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#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

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