Women holding hands: dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

Two women holding hands, represented here with one figure featuring a dark skin tone and the other featuring a medium-light skin tone. The design shows both individuals facing forward, linked by their clasped hands.

Usage Context

This emoji serves as a flexible way to represent female friendships, romantic relationships, or sisterhood between people of different ethnicities. It is frequently used to celebrate inclusivity and connection, often appearing in conversations about best friends or partners alongside emojis like ❤️ or 👯.

History

While the base version of this emoji was introduced in earlier Unicode standards, the ability to combine specific skin tones using Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. This update was a major push toward better representation, allowing users to accurately reflect diverse real-world relationships in digital messages.

Details

Glyph

👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#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

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

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