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

People

Two women holding hands, depicted with a medium-light skin tone for the first figure and a dark skin tone for the second. This emoji represents companionship, solidarity, or a romantic partnership between two women of different backgrounds.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent friendships, sisterhood, or couples. It is frequently sent to celebrate a relationship, show support for a partner, or highlight a close bond. It often appears alongside other relationship-focused icons like 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 or 👯‍♀️ to convey shared experiences or emotional closeness.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 9.0, which allowed for the layering of different skin tones onto existing base emoji. It reflects the ongoing push in digital communication to provide more inclusive and representative imagery for diverse real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏿

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

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

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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