Women holding hands: dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
Two women holding hands, represented here with one figure featuring a dark skin tone and the other featuring a medium-light skin tone. The design shows both individuals facing forward, linked by their clasped hands.
Usage Context
This emoji serves as a flexible way to represent female friendships, romantic relationships, or sisterhood between people of different ethnicities. It is frequently used to celebrate inclusivity and connection, often appearing in conversations about best friends or partners alongside emojis like ❤️ or 👯.
History
While the base version of this emoji was introduced in earlier Unicode standards, the ability to combine specific skin tones using Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. This update was a major push toward better representation, allowing users to accurately reflect diverse real-world relationships in digital messages.
Details
Glyph
👩🏿🤝👩🏼
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fc:
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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