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

People

Two people standing side-by-side while grasping each other's hands. One figure features a light skin tone, while the other displays a medium-light skin tone, showcasing a blend of diversity within the same icon.

Usage Context

Used to represent platonic friendship, romantic relationships, or general camaraderie. It is the go-to choice for showing support or unity between two individuals and is frequently used alongside 👫, 👭, or 👬 to express companionship.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019. It reflects the industry-wide push to expand skin tone modifiers to multi-person sequences, allowing users to accurately represent their own relationships and diverse social circles in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏻

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

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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