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

People

Two women holding hands, featuring one figure with medium-dark skin and the other with light skin. This emoji uses a multi-part sequence to combine two individual woman characters with an invisible joiner to form a single unit.

Usage Context

Used to represent platonic friendship, romantic relationships, or sisterhood between individuals of different ethnic backgrounds. It is a popular way to showcase unity, support, or a close bond between friends, often appearing alongside emojis like 👭 or ❤️ to emphasize connection.

History

While the basic women holding hands emoji was introduced in Emoji 4.0 in 2016, the ability to mix and match specific skin tones for individual people in a pair was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019. This update was a major push for inclusive representation, allowing users to better reflect real-world diverse relationships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏻

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

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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