Woman and man holding hands: dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with a dark skin tone and a man with a medium-light skin tone standing side-by-side while holding hands. They are connected by a small grey handshake icon, indicating that they are part of a singular linked character sequence.

Usage Context

Used to represent romantic relationships, platonic friendships, or partnerships between two people with different skin tones. It is frequently used in social media bios or captions to show support for interracial couples or to highlight a close bond between friends, often paired with ❤️ or 🤝.

History

This emoji relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, a technical method introduced by the Unicode Consortium to combine individual character codes into one displayable image. Before this technology became widely supported, users had to place standard emojis next to each other, like 👩 and 👨, without the integrated connection.

Details

Glyph

👩🏿‍🤝‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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