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

People

Two women holding hands, represented with a light skin tone on the left and a medium-dark skin tone on the right. The design clearly links two distinct figures to show a connection or partnership.

Usage Context

This emoji is a go-to for showing friendship, sisterhood, or romantic relationships between women. It is frequently used to highlight solidarity, celebrate a partner, or show off a best friend, often appearing alongside emojis like 💖 or 👯‍♀️ to emphasize the bond.

History

This emoji relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, a technical method introduced by the Unicode Consortium to combine separate emoji characters into a single glyph. It reflects a major push in the late 2010s to provide more diverse and inclusive representation for different pairings in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#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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