Women holding hands Emoji

People

Two women standing side-by-side, holding hands. The illustration focuses on the connection between the figures, representing companionship, sisterhood, or a romantic relationship.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, dating, or to identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. It is frequently sent to show support for a partner or to highlight a close bond between two people. It is often used alongside 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 or 👭🏻 variants to represent diverse skin tones.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. Its inclusion helped broaden the scope of human relationship icons on digital platforms, moving beyond traditional single-figure emojis to better reflect diverse social groupings and personal identities in mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

👭

Unicode

U+1F46D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f46d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC6D;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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