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

People

Two people standing side-by-side, holding hands, rendered with one individual having medium-dark skin and the other having medium skin. This design uses a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine individual person emojis with an invisible 'handshake' link.

Usage Context

Used to represent companionship, dating, platonic friendship, or a romantic couple. It is frequently deployed to celebrate inclusivity in relationships or to signal support for diverse pairings, often appearing alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🤝.

History

While the base holding hands emoji was added to Unicode in 2010, the complex skin tone combinations were introduced later in Emoji 12.0 (2019). This update was a major push to ensure that users could accurately represent the diverse demographics of real-world relationships in digital chat.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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

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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