Men holding hands: medium skin tone Emoji

People

Two men with medium skin tones standing side-by-side, holding hands. The figures are rendered with a gender-neutral style typical of modern platforms, clearly depicting a close bond between two males.

Usage Context

This emoji is widely used to represent romantic relationships, platonic bromances, or brotherly love. It is a go-to for celebrating pride, announcing a relationship, or highlighting a tight-knit friendship, often paired with the ❤️ or 🤝 emojis to emphasize the connection.

History

Initially, early emoji sets only featured generic figures. This specific combination was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 to support a wider range of family and relationship structures, later gaining support for skin tone modifiers to better represent the diversity of the global user base.

Details

Glyph

👬🏽

Unicode

U+1F46C U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f46c_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC6C;&#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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