Men holding hands: light skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

Two men standing side-by-side, holding hands, depicted with a light skin tone and a medium-light skin tone respectively. This emoji visually represents a connection between two men, highlighting inclusivity in human representation.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, brotherhood, romantic relationships, or support for the LGBTQ+ community. People often use it to celebrate a partner or a close friend, similar to how one might use 👩‍❤️‍👨 or 🤝 to signify a bond or partnership.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences in Unicode 9.0, released in 2016. This technology allowed developers to combine existing person emojis with skin tone modifiers and the handshake symbol to create diverse, multi-person combinations.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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