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

People

Two people standing side-by-side while holding hands, featuring a light skin tone on the left and a medium-dark skin tone on the right. This character uses a gender-neutral appearance to represent a connection between two individuals regardless of gender identity.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, romantic relationships, or support between people of different backgrounds. It is frequently sent to celebrate a partnership or to highlight a close bond, appearing alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🤝.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.0 update in 2019. It represents a significant technical expansion in Unicode, allowing for the combination of separate skin tone modifiers with a base emoji to promote inclusive representation of diverse interpersonal connections.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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

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