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

People

A side-by-side depiction of a woman with medium skin tone and a man with light skin tone, their hands firmly clasped together. This emoji acts as a direct signifier of partnership, interpersonal connection, or platonic camaraderie.

Usage Context

Used frequently to signal romantic interest, celebrate relationship milestones, or denote a close bond between friends. Users often place it alongside ❤️ or ✨ to emphasize the strength of their relationship or to announce a new couple to their followers.

History

This emoji represents the expansion of Unicode’s ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences, which were implemented to allow for more diverse and inclusive human representations. By combining individual gender and skin tone modifiers, it moved away from the limited default figures found in early 2000s chat platforms toward a system that reflects real-world human variety.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏻

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

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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