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

People

A pair of people, a woman and a man, standing side-by-side while grasping hands. The woman displays a medium-light skin tone and the man displays a medium skin tone, joined together by a zero-width joiner to show them as a single connected unit.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for representing romantic relationships, partnership, or deep platonic bonds. It is frequently used to share relationship milestones, announce a date, or simply signal solidarity between two people. It functions as a more specific alternative to the generic 👫 or the more affectionate 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨.

History

While the basic 'holding hands' emoji has existed since the early days of Unicode, the ability to modify skin tones for each individual in a pair was a major technical evolution introduced in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. This update was a response to demand for more inclusive representation, allowing users to accurately reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#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

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