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

People

An image showing two women joining hands, with one woman having a medium skin tone and the other having a medium-dark skin tone. The two figures are linked by a small handshake icon, representing a connection or partnership between them.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to celebrate friendship, romantic relationships, or sisterhood between two women of different backgrounds. It is a popular choice for social media posts featuring close friends, partners, or family members. It functions as a more specific alternative to the generic 👭 emoji and is often grouped with other inclusive relationship icons like 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏿 or 🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏾.

History

These skin tone variations were added to the Emoji 4.0 update in 2016. The introduction of these modifiers was a direct response to user demands for better representation of real-world diversity in digital communication, allowing people to more accurately reflect their personal relationships and identities.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏾

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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