Women holding hands: medium skin tone Emoji

People

Two women with medium skin tones standing side-by-side, holding hands. The design depicts a pair of figures typically shown in matching outfits, representing a close bond or partnership between two women.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to highlight female friendships, sisterhood, or romantic relationships. It is the go-to choice for social media captions about best friends or dates, often paired with the ❤️ or 👯‍♀️ emojis to emphasize affection and shared activities.

History

Initially, early emoji sets only offered generic gender-neutral or male figures. This specific design was added as part of the expansion of the Unicode standard in 2016 to improve representation and allow users to reflect diverse human relationships and skin tones within digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👭🏽

Unicode

U+1F46D U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f46d_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC6D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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