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

People

Two men standing side-by-side while holding hands. The person on the left features a medium-light skin tone, while the person on the right has a light skin tone, connected by a small handshake icon in the middle.

Usage Context

Used to denote a romantic relationship, a close friendship, or a platonic bond between men. It serves as a modern way to represent male companionship or dating, often sent alongside other relationship-focused emojis like ❤️ or 👬.

History

This emoji was created using a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine individual male emojis and the handshake symbol. It was added to the standard set to allow for more diverse and inclusive representation of relationships, following the expansion of skin tone modifiers in Unicode 8.0.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍🤝‍👨🏻

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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