Woman and man holding hands: medium-light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium-light skin and a man with dark skin holding hands side-by-side. The design features a gender-neutral connection point between the two figures to represent them standing as a unit.
Usage Context
Used to denote a romantic relationship, a platonic friendship, or a pairing between two people. People often use this alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize commitment, partnership, or the simple act of being together. It is a go-to for announcements about engagements, weddings, or meeting up with a close friend.
History
This emoji was made possible by the introduction of the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. Before this, emojis were static, single-character images; the ZWJ allowed systems to stitch together separate gender and skin tone characters to create diverse, multi-person combinations that reflect real-world human variety.
Details
Glyph
👩🏼🤝👨🏿
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_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. © 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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