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

People

Two women holding hands, represented here with a medium-light skin tone on the left and a medium-dark skin tone on the right. The design clearly shows the two figures linked at the wrist.

Usage Context

This emoji is widely used to celebrate friendship, sisterhood, or romantic relationships. It serves as a visual shorthand for support, unity, and companionship. People frequently use it alongside 👩‍❤️‍👩 to show a romantic connection or 👯 to highlight a close platonic bond.

History

This sequence was added as part of the Emoji 5.0 update in 2017. It relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) method, which stitches together individual woman emojis and a handshake emoji to allow for complex skin tone combinations that reflect real-world diversity.

Details

Glyph

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏾

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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