Women holding hands: dark skin tone Emoji
People
Two women with dark skin tones standing side-by-side, holding hands. The design emphasizes a shared bond or close relationship between two female figures.
Usage Context
Used to represent sisterhood, platonic friendship, or romantic relationships between women. It is frequently sent to show solidarity, celebrate a night out, or confirm plans with a best friend. When users want to signal a specific group or couple, they often combine this with other skin-tone variants or emojis like 💕 to emphasize affection.
History
This emoji evolved from the original gender-neutral holding hands icons. It was introduced as part of the expansion of skin tone modifiers in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, which aimed to make character representations more inclusive of diverse human appearances in digital messaging.
Details
Glyph
👭🏿
Unicode
U+1F46D U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f46d_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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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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