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

People

Two people standing side-by-side, holding hands, rendered with one individual having medium-dark skin and the other having medium skin. This design uses a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to combine individual person emojis with an invisible 'handshake' link.

Usage Context

Used to represent companionship, dating, platonic friendship, or a romantic couple. It is frequently deployed to celebrate inclusivity in relationships or to signal support for diverse pairings, often appearing alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🤝.

History

While the base holding hands emoji was added to Unicode in 2010, the complex skin tone combinations were introduced later in Emoji 12.0 (2019). This update was a major push to ensure that users could accurately represent the diverse demographics of real-world relationships in digital chat.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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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