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

People

A pair of people, a woman and a man, standing side-by-side and holding hands. The woman features a light skin tone, while the man features a medium-light skin tone.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent romantic partnerships, dating, or close platonic friendships. It is the go-to emoji for announcing a new relationship or showing support for a significant other. It is frequently used alongside emojis like ❤️ or 😊 to express affection and togetherness.

History

This emoji represents the evolution of Unicode’s ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences. Originally, platforms could only display individuals as separate characters; the ZWJ implementation allowed developers to chain multiple distinct characters together to form a single, cohesive visual unit representing diverse couples and groups.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#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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