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

People

Two individuals standing side-by-side with their hands clasped together, featuring a dark skin tone for the first person and a medium-light skin tone for the second. This graphic depicts a bond or partnership between two people of differing complexions.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent romantic couples, close friends, or family members. It is frequently sent to show support for interracial relationships or to express unity and companionship. It is often used alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize a close connection.

History

While the basic people holding hands icon dates back to early Unicode, the ability to modify the skin tones of individual figures was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. This update was a major technical shift, requiring the combination of several different Unicode characters to represent the specific skin tone pairings that users see on their screens today.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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