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

People

Two men with varying skin tones standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The left figure displays a medium-light skin tone, while the right figure displays a medium-dark skin tone.

Usage Context

This emoji acts as a shorthand for brotherhood, friendship, or romantic partnerships between men. Users often send it to celebrate a relationship, show solidarity, or acknowledge a connection between two people, much like the 👩‍❤️‍👨 or 🤝 emojis.

History

These multi-person emoji combinations were made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 9.0. By layering existing character codes, developers allowed for a more diverse range of human representation that wasn't possible with the rigid, single-glyph characters of early messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏾

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

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

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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