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

People

Two people standing side-by-side, holding hands, both rendered with a medium skin tone. The design features a neutral gender presentation, focusing on the connection between the two figures.

Usage Context

Used to represent friendship, partnership, dating, or a supportive bond between two people. It is frequently sent to celebrate a relationship, show solidarity, or denote a pair of best friends. It often appears alongside other connection-based emojis like 🤝 or 💕.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the effort to make digital communication more inclusive by implementing the Fitzpatrick skin tone scale across human-form emojis. The ability to combine specific skin tones with these figures arrived in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, allowing users to more accurately represent real-world diverse pairings.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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