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

People

An illustration showing a woman with medium skin tone and a man with dark skin tone standing side-by-side while clasping hands. The figures are connected by a small handshake icon, marking them as a single combined character unit.

Usage Context

Used to represent romantic partnerships, friendships, or support between two people of different backgrounds. It is a popular choice for social media posts celebrating relationships or showing solidarity. It is frequently sent alongside heart emojis like ❤️ or 💕 to emphasize affection.

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 into diverse multi-person clusters, providing more inclusive options for users to represent their real-life relationships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏿

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

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