Women holding hands: light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two women holding hands, rendered with one figure having a light skin tone and the other having a dark skin tone. The design depicts a connection between two individuals, emphasizing unity, friendship, or romantic partnership across different backgrounds.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to celebrate interracial relationships, friendships, or solidarity between women. It serves as a visual shorthand for being inseparable, whether used to talk about a ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉ romantic partner or a close ๐Ÿ‘ฏโ€โ™€๏ธ best friend. People often use it to represent inclusivity and the breaking down of social barriers.

History

Following the introduction of the base women holding hands emoji, this version was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. It was part of a larger push by the Unicode Consortium to increase the diversity of human emojis by allowing users to combine different skin tone modifiers with multi-person characters to better reflect real-world human connections.

Details

Glyph
๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿฟ
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory family
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
baebestiebffcoupledatingflirtfriendsgirlshandholdsisterstwinswomeninterracialdiversitysolidaritypartnershipunity

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