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

People

A composite image showing a woman with light skin and a man with medium skin holding hands. The pair is linked by a small icon in the center to signify they are connected as a single unit.

Usage Context

Used to represent romantic partners, close friends, or family members. It is a popular way to share relationship status updates on social media or to tag a friend in a photo. This version specifically highlights a multiracial pairing, often used to reflect diverse personal relationships alongside emojis like 👩‍❤️‍👨 or 🧑‍🤝‍🧑.

History

While the basic 'holding hands' emoji has existed since the early days of Unicode, the ability to select specific skin tones for individuals in the pair was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. This update was a major move to make digital communication more inclusive by allowing users to accurately represent their own real-life partnerships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory family

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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