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

People

Two individuals standing side-by-side with their hands clasped together, depicted with a light skin tone on the left and a medium skin tone on the right. The figures are gender-neutral, focusing on the act of connection between two different people.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, partnership, or community. It is a go-to choice for showing support between different groups or celebrating a bond between two people with diverse backgrounds. Users frequently combine it with ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize unity and social connection.

History

This design was added in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0. It arrived following a major industry push to broaden the range of skin tones and human pairings, allowing for a more accurate representation of multi-ethnic relationships and friendships that previous, fixed-tone emojis couldn't cover.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏽

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

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

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

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