Woman and man holding hands: dark skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman and a medium-skinned man holding hands. This image features two distinct people connected by a handshake, representing unity, partnership, or a social bond between two individuals of different complexions.

Usage Context

Widely used to denote a romantic relationship, a platonic friendship, or a close alliance. It is frequently sent to celebrate a partner or friend, often appearing alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize a personal connection or solidarity.

History

This emoji represents the evolution of Unicode’s efforts to include diverse skin tone modifiers for people. While the basic holding hands emoji has been around since 2010, the ability to mix and match specific skin tones for individual people in the pair was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019 to better reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏿‍🤝‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#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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