Women holding hands: dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
Two women holding hands, represented here with one figure featuring a dark skin tone and the other featuring a medium-light skin tone. The design shows both individuals facing forward, linked by their clasped hands.
Usage Context
This emoji serves as a flexible way to represent female friendships, romantic relationships, or sisterhood between people of different ethnicities. It is frequently used to celebrate inclusivity and connection, often appearing in conversations about best friends or partners alongside emojis like ❤️ or 👯.
History
While the base version of this emoji was introduced in earlier Unicode standards, the ability to combine specific skin tones using Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. This update was a major push toward better representation, allowing users to accurately reflect diverse real-world relationships in digital messages.
Details
Glyph
👩🏿🤝👩🏼
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fc:
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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