People holding hands: dark skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
Two people standing side-by-side with their hands clasped together, featuring a dark skin tone for the first person and a medium-dark skin tone for the second. The design emphasizes connection and togetherness between two distinct individuals.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to celebrate relationships, whether they are romantic partnerships, platonic best friendships, or family bonds. Users often pair it with ❤️ or ✨ to highlight the importance of their connection. It serves as a digital way to show solidarity or public acknowledgment of a close social link.
History
These combined emojis were made possible by the introduction of the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, which allows individual characters to be linked together to create a single glyph. This specific multi-person grouping was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to provide more inclusive options for representing diverse relationships and human connections in messaging apps.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏿🤝🧑🏾
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory family
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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