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

People

Two men standing side-by-side, holding hands between them. The figure on the left features a light skin tone, while the figure on the right features a medium skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to represent romantic partnerships, close friendships, or brotherhood between men of different ethnicities. It is frequently sent to show solidarity, support for diversity, or simply to label a pair of people as a 'power couple' or 'best friends.' It is often used alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize a bond.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, which allowed platforms to combine individual person emojis with a handshake icon to create complex multi-person graphics. It was added to the Unicode standard to provide more inclusive and accurate representations of real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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