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

People

Two individuals of different skin tones standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The emoji features a person with a medium-light skin tone on the left and a person with a medium-dark skin tone on the right, joined by a central hand-holding icon.

Usage Context

Used to represent platonic friendship, romantic relationships, or general camaraderie between two people of diverse backgrounds. It is frequently used in social media bios or captions to celebrate partnerships, dating, or close bonds, often appearing alongside ❤️ or 🤝 to emphasize connection and inclusivity.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of the Emoji 12.0 update in 2019. It reflects a major push by the Unicode Consortium to increase human diversity in digital communication by allowing users to combine distinct skin tone modifiers for individual figures within a single character sequence.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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

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