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

People

A pair of people, a woman with medium-dark skin and a man with light skin, standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The design displays two distinct individuals joined by a small hand-holding connector emoji.

Usage Context

Used to denote relationships ranging from romantic partners to close platonic friends. It is a go-to for showing public support for mixed-race couples or highlighting a partnership between friends. It is often used alongside emojis like ❤️ or 👯 to emphasize companionship or a duo.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. This technical workaround allowed platform developers to combine individual person emojis with a handshake emoji to create a diverse array of skin-tone combinations, solving the previous limitation where only a single, generic skin tone was available.

Details

Glyph

👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏻

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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