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

People

Two women holding hands, represented with a light skin tone on the left and a medium-dark skin tone on the right. The design clearly links two distinct figures to show a connection or partnership.

Usage Context

This emoji is a go-to for showing friendship, sisterhood, or romantic relationships between women. It is frequently used to highlight solidarity, celebrate a partner, or show off a best friend, often appearing alongside emojis like 💖 or 👯‍♀️ to emphasize the bond.

History

This emoji relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, a technical method introduced by the Unicode Consortium to combine separate emoji characters into a single glyph. It reflects a major push in the late 2010s to provide more diverse and inclusive representation for different pairings in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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