People holding hands: medium-light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji
People
Two people standing side-by-side, holding hands, featuring one person with a medium-light skin tone and another with a dark skin tone. The figures are generic, gender-neutral representations intended to focus on the connection between individuals.
Usage Context
Used to signal unity, companionship, or the start of a relationship between people of different backgrounds. It is a go-to for showing off a partner, a close friend, or a significant other, often acting as a digital way to say 'we are together.' It is frequently used alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize a bond.
History
This emoji was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. It emerged from a massive push by the Unicode Consortium to increase human representation and inclusivity, moving away from rigid, gendered, or single-tone character sets to better reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.
Details
Glyph
🧑🏼🤝🧑🏿
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3ff:
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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