People holding hands: medium skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
Two people standing side-by-side while holding hands. The person on the left features a medium skin tone, and the person on the right features a medium-dark skin tone. The design captures a gesture of companionship, support, or romantic partnership.
Usage Context
Used to represent friendships, romantic couples, or a show of solidarity. It is a popular choice for social media captions to highlight a relationship or a shared experience. It acts as a more inclusive alternative to gender-specific pairings like 👩❤️👨 or 👨❤️👨, allowing for a neutral representation of human connection.
History
This emoji was introduced as part of the effort to make Unicode more representative of human diversity. It relies on the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines separate character codes to render as a single image—a technical standard that has allowed for thousands of new skin tone and gender combinations since 2019.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏽🤝🧑🏾
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:
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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