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

People

Two men standing side-by-side while holding hands, featuring a medium-dark skin tone for one figure and a medium-light skin tone for the other. This emoji uses the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine individual character parts into a single cohesive image.

Usage Context

Used to denote romantic relationships, close friendships, or platonic camaraderie between two men of different ethnic backgrounds. It is frequently sent to celebrate inclusive relationships, pride, or shared experiences. Users often pair this with ❤️ or 👬 to emphasize the depth of the connection.

History

While the basic men holding hands emoji arrived in 2010, the expanded skin tone modifiers were added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. This update was part of a broader industry initiative to ensure diverse representation within global digital communication, moving away from the default yellow-toned human characters of early platforms.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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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