Woman and man holding hands: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A silhouette featuring a woman and a man holding hands, displayed with a dark skin tone modifier. This representation depicts two individuals standing side-by-side in a sign of companionship or partnership.

Usage Context

Used to represent romantic relationships, platonic friendship, or a sense of unity. It is a frequent choice for social media posts celebrating relationships, tagging a partner, or signaling a "best friend" status. Users often pair this with the ❤️ or 🤝 emojis to emphasize the bond being described.

History

While the basic couple emoji dates back to early mobile platforms, the ability to modify skin tones was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was a major push toward making digital communication more inclusive, allowing users to select skin tones that better reflect their personal identity and diversity.

Details

Glyph

👫🏿

Unicode

U+1F46B U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f46b_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC6B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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