Woman and man holding hands: medium-dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A composite image featuring a woman with medium-dark skin and a man with medium-light skin, standing side-by-side with their hands clasped together. The design uses a joiner character to link two individual person emojis into a single connected unit.

Usage Context

This emoji is a go-to for showing romantic relationships, platonic friendship, or partnerships. It is frequently used to announce a relationship status, describe a night out with a 👫 or 👩‍❤️‍👨, or celebrate a supportive bond between two people.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 9.0, released in 2016. This technology allowed developers to combine existing character sets to create specific skin tone combinations, moving beyond the limited set of pre-rendered figures previously available.

Details

Glyph

👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#xD83E;&#xDD1D;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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