People holding hands: light skin tone, light skin tone Emoji

People

Two people standing side-by-side with their hands clasped together, both depicted with a light skin tone. The figures represent a unified pair, whether they are romantic partners, close friends, or family members.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, partnership, or being 'in it together.' It is the go-to emoji for tagging a best friend, a significant other, or simply highlighting a pair of people you are close with. It is frequently used alongside ❤️ or 👯 to emphasize a strong personal connection.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019. It emerged from a push to make digital communication more inclusive by allowing users to select specific skin tones for individual people within a single character, moving away from the generic yellow icons that were standard in early mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#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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