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

People

Two women holding hands, represented with a medium-dark skin tone for the first figure and a medium-light skin tone for the second. The design features a handshake-style link between the two figures.

Usage Context

Used to denote friendship, sisterhood, or a romantic relationship between two women of different backgrounds. It is frequently sent to celebrate companionship or to highlight an alliance between friends, much like 👭 or the broader family of 🤝 hand-holding emojis.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of an effort to provide more inclusive, granular skin tone combinations for people-based emojis. It reflects the shift toward representing diverse interpersonal connections in digital messaging after earlier versions only allowed for uniform skin tones.

Details

Glyph

👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏼

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fe_200d_1f91d_200d_1f469_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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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