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

People

Two people standing side-by-side with their hands clasped together, featuring a dark skin tone for the first person and a medium-dark skin tone for the second. The design emphasizes connection and togetherness between two distinct individuals.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to celebrate relationships, whether they are romantic partnerships, platonic best friendships, or family bonds. Users often pair it with ❤️ or ✨ to highlight the importance of their connection. It serves as a digital way to show solidarity or public acknowledgment of a close social link.

History

These combined emojis were made possible by the introduction of the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, which allows individual characters to be linked together to create a single glyph. This specific multi-person grouping was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to provide more inclusive options for representing diverse relationships and human connections in messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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