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

People

Two people standing side-by-side with one arm extended to hold hands. The left person features a medium skin tone, while the right person has a light skin tone, representing a diverse connection between two individuals.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, partnership, dating, or a supportive bond between two people of different backgrounds. It is frequently sent to show solidarity, celebrate a relationship, or signal that two people are 'in it together,' often used alongside 🤝 or ❤️.

History

This emoji was created through the implementation of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences, which allowed developers to combine individual emoji characters into a single grapheme. This specific multi-skin tone combination was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019 to better reflect the diverse nature of real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏻

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

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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