People holding hands: medium-dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
Two people standing side-by-side, joined at the hand. One figure has a medium-dark skin tone and the other has a medium-light skin tone, connected by a small grey link representing their union.
Usage Context
Used to represent platonic friendship, romantic relationships, or general camaraderie. It is a popular choice for tagging a 100 percent match, showing support for a partner, or acknowledging a close 'bestie' relationship.
History
This emoji was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.0 update in 2019. It was developed to provide more inclusive options for users to represent mixed-race couples or diverse pairs of friends, moving away from the limited yellow-toned figures that existed in earlier versions of the character set.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏾🤝🧑🏼
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:
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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