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

People

Two individuals of a medium-light skin tone standing side-by-side while grasping each other's hands. This variant uses the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine two gender-neutral people with a specific skin tone modification.

Usage Context

Used to denote companionship, platonic friendship, or romantic partnership. It is the go-to emoji for tagging a 'bestie' in a social media post or showing solidarity with someone. It is frequently used in conjunction with the ❤️ or 👯 emojis to celebrate personal connections.

History

While the basic people holding hands emoji has been part of Unicode for years, the specific skin tone modifiers were implemented later to better represent diverse user identities across global platforms. These sequences gained widespread support around 2019, allowing users to customize their digital representations to better match their real-life relationships.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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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