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

People

A pair of people, a woman and a man, standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The woman displays a medium-light skin tone and the man displays a medium skin tone, joined together by a zero-width joiner to show them as a single connected unit.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for representing romantic relationships, partnership, or deep platonic bonds. It is frequently used to share relationship milestones, announce a date, or simply signal solidarity between two people. It functions as a more specific alternative to the generic 👫 or the more affectionate 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨.

History

While the basic 'holding hands' emoji has existed since the early days of Unicode, the ability to modify skin tones for each individual in a pair was a major technical evolution introduced in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. This update was a response to demand for more inclusive representation, allowing users to accurately reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

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

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository