Woman and man holding hands: light skin tone Emoji

People

A pair of figures, a man and a woman, standing side-by-side while holding hands. This version features the light skin tone modifier applied to both individuals, showing them as a connected unit.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal romantic relationships, dating, or close friendships. It serves as a visual shorthand for being 'together,' whether that means a romantic partner, a sibling, or a best friend. It is often used in combination with ❤️ to emphasize affection or with 👫 to denote different skin tone variations.

History

While the base version of this emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to represent generic people holding hands, the skin tone modifiers were added later in 2015 as part of the push to make digital communication more inclusive and reflective of diverse human appearances.

Details

Glyph

👫🏻

Unicode

U+1F46B U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f46b_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC6B;&#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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