Woman and man holding hands: medium-light skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji
People
A pair of people, a woman and a man, standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The woman displays a medium-light skin tone and the man displays a medium skin tone, joined together by a zero-width joiner to show them as a single connected unit.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to for representing romantic relationships, partnership, or deep platonic bonds. It is frequently used to share relationship milestones, announce a date, or simply signal solidarity between two people. It functions as a more specific alternative to the generic 👫 or the more affectionate 👩❤️💋👨.
History
While the basic 'holding hands' emoji has existed since the early days of Unicode, the ability to modify skin tones for each individual in a pair was a major technical evolution introduced in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. This update was a response to demand for more inclusive representation, allowing users to accurately reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.
Details
Glyph
👩🏼🤝👨🏽
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fd:
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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