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

People

Two women holding hands, rendered with one figure having a medium skin tone and the other having a light skin tone. The design captures a moment of connection or companionship between two individuals.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently sent to celebrate platonic friendships, sisterhood, or romantic relationships. It serves as a visual shorthand for partnership, support, or 'us against the world' vibes. It is commonly used alongside ❤️ or 👯 to emphasize a close bond.

History

These skin tone combinations were introduced as part of the expansion of the Emoji 12.0 update in 2019. This update focused on inclusive representation, allowing users to accurately reflect diverse real-world interpersonal relationships through multi-person groupings that were previously limited to a single default skin tone.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏻

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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