People holding hands: medium-light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji
People
Two people standing side-by-side, holding hands, featuring one person with a medium-light skin tone and another with a dark skin tone. The figures are generic, gender-neutral representations intended to focus on the connection between individuals.
Usage Context
Used to signal unity, companionship, or the start of a relationship between people of different backgrounds. It is a go-to for showing off a partner, a close friend, or a significant other, often acting as a digital way to say 'we are together.' It is frequently used alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize a bond.
History
This emoji was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. It emerged from a massive push by the Unicode Consortium to increase human representation and inclusivity, moving away from rigid, gendered, or single-tone character sets to better reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏼🤝🧑🏿
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory family
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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