People holding hands: dark skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

Two people standing side-by-side with their hands clasped together, featuring a dark skin tone on the left and a medium skin tone on the right. This variant highlights diversity and human connection through a shared, inclusive gesture.

Usage Context

Used to signal friendship, romantic partnership, or a strong bond between two individuals. It is frequently sent when acknowledging a relationship, celebrating a new couple, or showing support for a friend. It often appears in conversations alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize a close connection.

History

The people holding hands emoji started as a generic yellow figure, but the Unicode Consortium expanded it in 2019 to include skin tone modifiers. This update was a major move to better reflect the diverse range of actual human relationships across global messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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