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

People

Two women standing side-by-side while holding hands. The first woman has a light skin tone, and the second woman has a medium-light skin tone. The design features a handshake icon anchored between them to signal a connection.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, sisterhood, or a romantic relationship between two women. It is a frequent choice for posts about best friends, partners, or supportive relationships. It is often used alongside emojis like 👭 or 💖 to emphasize a close personal bond.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences in Emoji 4.0, which allowed for the combining of separate characters into a single unit. This advancement finally allowed users to represent diverse pairings and specific skin tone combinations that were previously unavailable in standard sets.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F469 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

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

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