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

People

Two men with dark and medium skin tones standing side-by-side, gripping each other's hands. This emoji uses ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) technology to combine individual figures into a single connected visual unit.

Usage Context

Used to represent platonic bromance, romantic partnerships, or family bonds between two men. It is the go-to choice for showing support for a friend or partner and is frequently used alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize closeness and solidarity.

History

This sequence was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a major push to expand inclusivity and represent a wider array of diverse human relationships, moving beyond the limited set of gendered or skin-tone-specific icons available in earlier versions of the emoji keyboard.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍🤝‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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