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

People

Two women holding hands, depicted with a medium-light skin tone for the first figure and a medium skin tone for the second. The design shows them standing side-by-side, fingers interlaced, representing a partnership or close social bond.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to celebrate friendships, sisterhood, or romantic relationships between women. It is a popular way to signal solidarity or show off a 'bestie' or partner. It is often used in social media bios or captions alongside 👯 or 👩‍❤️‍👩 to emphasize togetherness.

History

This emoji was created using the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, a technical workaround that stitches individual character codes together to form a single, complex image. While basic gendered emojis existed earlier, this specific combination was introduced in 2018 to meet the demand for more inclusive and diverse relationship representations in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏽

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fc_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

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

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

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