People wrestling: light skin tone, medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dynamic depiction of two individuals locked in a wrestling hold, featuring a figure with a light skin tone and a figure with a medium-dark skin tone. The image captures the physical intensity of two athletes engaged in a competitive grappling match.

Usage Context

Used to represent professional wrestling, amateur combat sports, or playful roughhousing among friends. It is a frequent choice for fans discussing televised matches or as a way to describe a struggle or 'grappling' with a difficult decision. It is often paired with the 🤼 wrestling emoji or the 🥊 boxing glove to signal a competitive spirit.

History

This sequence was added in Emoji 14.0 in 2021 as part of an expansion to include skin tone modifiers for multi-person emojis. This allowed users to more accurately represent diverse pairings in sports and social interactions, moving away from the default yellow-skinned characters that dominated early messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍🫯‍🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1FAEF U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_1faef_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDEEF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

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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