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

People

Two people standing side-by-side, holding hands, featuring one person with a medium-light skin tone and another with a dark skin tone. The figures are generic, gender-neutral representations intended to focus on the connection between individuals.

Usage Context

Used to signal unity, companionship, or the start of a relationship between people of different backgrounds. It is a go-to for showing off a partner, a close friend, or a significant other, often acting as a digital way to say 'we are together.' It is frequently used alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize a bond.

History

This emoji was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. It emerged from a massive push by the Unicode Consortium to increase human representation and inclusivity, moving away from rigid, gendered, or single-tone character sets to better reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏿

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

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

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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