🧑🤝🧑
What 🧑🤝🧑 means
A double-charactered emoji with two identical people wearing the same clothes, standing in the same posture next to each other while they hold the other person's hand.
The 🧑🤝🧑 People Holding Hands emoji refers to two people holding hands irrespective of gender and sex. It signifies companionship, togetherness, unity, or even a romantic interest, life partner, and partnership.
This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- Use 🧑🤝🧑 while posting pictures or videos with your best friend or twin (or even a twin who's your best friend, anything works). It would be even better if both of y'all are wearing matching outfits in the post.
- 🧑🤝🧑 can be used while posting anything related to a 'community', a 'club', 'group', etc. For example, if you're posting or tweeting about a new club in college, you can use this emoji; like "Day 1 of a new journey. Welcome to the club! 🧑🤝🧑".
- If you're in need of emojis that seem like an endless human chain for a caption, you can use multiple of the 🧑🤝🧑 emoji - like "🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑🧑🤝🧑".
- The gender-neutrality and gender-inclusivity denoted in 🧑🤝🧑 can also be used to represent the gender-fluid and the gender-queer community.
- You can also use 🧑🤝🧑 to convey a sense of reassurance and support, like "We're in this together, bro 🧑🤝🧑".
- 🧑🤝🧑 can represent a part of a whole, or signify the whole as well. For example, if you're sharing a post about a larger community, like a nation, an ethnicity, a religious community, etc, you can use 🧑🤝🧑 as a synecdoche to the larger crowd.
Other Names
- 🧑🤝🧑 Gender-Neutral People Holding Hands
- 🧑🤝🧑 Togetherness
- 🧑🤝🧑 Two People
- 🧑🤝🧑 Two Lovers
- 🧑🤝🧑 Twins
- 🧑🤝🧑 Twinning
- 🧑🤝🧑 Best Friends
- 🧑🤝🧑 Unity
- 🧑🤝🧑 Two Humans
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › family
- Codepoints
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1- Emoji version
- Emoji 12.0
- Shortcodes
:people_holding_hands:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- bae, bestie, bff, couple, dating, flirt, friends, hand, hold, people, twins
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏻light skin tone🧑🏻🤝🧑🏼light skin tone, medium-light skin tone🧑🏻🤝🧑🏽light skin tone, medium skin tone🧑🏻🤝🧑🏾light skin tone, medium-dark skin tone🧑🏻🤝🧑🏿light skin tone, dark skin tone🧑🏼🤝🧑🏻medium-light skin tone, light skin tone🧑🏼🤝🧑🏼medium-light skin tone🧑🏼🤝🧑🏽medium-light skin tone, medium skin tone🧑🏼🤝🧑🏾medium-light skin tone, medium-dark skin tone🧑🏼🤝🧑🏿medium-light skin tone, dark skin tone🧑🏽🤝🧑🏻medium skin tone, light skin tone🧑🏽🤝🧑🏼medium skin tone, medium-light skin tone🧑🏽🤝🧑🏽medium skin tone🧑🏽🤝🧑🏾medium skin tone, medium-dark skin tone🧑🏽🤝🧑🏿medium skin tone, dark skin tone🧑🏾🤝🧑🏻medium-dark skin tone, light skin tone🧑🏾🤝🧑🏼medium-dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone🧑🏾🤝🧑🏽medium-dark skin tone, medium skin tone🧑🏾🤝🧑🏾medium-dark skin tone🧑🏾🤝🧑🏿medium-dark skin tone, dark skin tone🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻dark skin tone, light skin tone🧑🏿🤝🧑🏼dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone🧑🏿🤝🧑🏽dark skin tone, medium skin tone🧑🏿🤝🧑🏾dark skin tone, medium-dark skin tone🧑🏿🤝🧑🏿dark skin tone
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧑🤝🧑 People Holding Hands or 🇨🇼 Flag: Curaçao?