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

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

People

A digital representation of two individuals holding hands, depicting a woman with a medium-light skin tone and a man with a medium-dark skin tone. The design features the figures joined at the hands, showing a connection between two distinct people.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent romantic relationships, platonic friendships, or partnerships. It serves as a visual shorthand for being together, dating, or showing support for a loved one. People often use it alongside other relationship-focused icons like โค๏ธ or ๐Ÿค to emphasize a bond between individuals.

History

The ability to combine individual gendered emojis with skin tone modifiers was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. This update was a major technical milestone, moving away from fixed character sets toward a flexible system that allows users to represent diverse human pairings in messaging apps.

Details

Glyph
๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿพ
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fe:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X
Category People
Subcategory family
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
baebestiebffcoupledatingflirtfriendshandholdmanwomanrelationshipholding handsdiversepartnership

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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