Women holding hands: dark skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two women holding hands, rendered with one individual having a dark skin tone and the other a medium-dark skin tone. The design shows their hands linked firmly, representing a close bond or shared connection.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to show friendship, support, or a romantic relationship between two women. People use it to signal solidarity, celebrate a partnership, or highlight a bond with a friend, often pairing it with hearts like 💕 or 💖 to emphasize the closeness of the relationship.

History

These skin tone variations were added to the Unicode standard following the 2015 push for greater diversity in digital communication. By combining individual gender and skin tone modifiers with the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, developers enabled users to create more personalized representations of their real-world social circles.

Details

Glyph

👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏾

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#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

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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