Woman and man holding hands: medium-light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium-light skin and a man with dark skin holding hands side-by-side. The design features a gender-neutral connection point between the two figures to represent them standing as a unit.
Usage Context
Used to denote a romantic relationship, a platonic friendship, or a pairing between two people. People often use this alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize commitment, partnership, or the simple act of being together. It is a go-to for announcements about engagements, weddings, or meeting up with a close friend.
History
This emoji was made possible by the introduction of the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. Before this, emojis were static, single-character images; the ZWJ allowed systems to stitch together separate gender and skin tone characters to create diverse, multi-person combinations that reflect real-world human variety.
Details
Glyph
👩🏼🤝👨🏿
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3ff:
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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