Unicode has four holding hands emoji: π§βπ€βπ§ People holding hands, π« Woman and man holding hands, π Women holding hands and π¬ Men holding hands. Each comes in 25 skin tone pairs, and all 100 are tiles below.
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Reading the skin tone pairs
Each set of 25 runs light to dark by the first person, then by the second. Where both tones match, the three older emoji are one character and a skin tone modifier. A mixed pair is longer: a person, a handshake and a person, held by two zero width joiners.
Why a pair and its mirror can look alike
Emoji 12.0 listed 70 of the 100 pairs. Emoji 12.1 added the other 30, the mirror images for two women, two men and two people. UTS #51, Unicodeβs emoji standard, lets a font draw one picture for a pair and its mirror.
CLDR, Unicodeβs list of search words, files all four under friends, couple and twins. Only π answers to sisters, only π¬ to brothers.
Hand in hand is main dans la main in French and el ele in Turkish, by Wiktionary. Six more are tiles.
Questions and answers
Which is the women holding hands emoji?
π Women holding hands, U+1F46D, from Emoji 1.0. Unicodeβs character name for it is TWO WOMEN HOLDING HANDS. Its 25 skin tone pairs have a heading of their own below.
Which is the man and woman holding hands emoji?
π«, U+1F46B, the oldest of the four, from Emoji 0.6. The character name is MAN AND WOMAN HOLDING HANDS, but the short name and every mixed pair put the woman first: her skin tone is the first of the two.
Is there a holding hands emoji with no gender?
Yes: π§βπ€βπ§, from Emoji 12.0. It is two Person emoji joined by π€ Handshake, so even the yellow one is a sequence of five code points, not a single character.
Why does a holding hands emoji show as two people and a handshake?
The device has no picture for that pair. UTS #51 says a system without a glyph for a joined sequence drops the joiners and displays the parts, here a person, π€ and a person.
All 137 items
Holding hands emoji 4
π¬Men holding handsU+1F46C. Its Unicode character name is TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS. The only emoji filed under brothers and boys. Emoji 1.0.
π§βπ€βπ§People holding handsU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1. Two Person emoji joined by a handshake, so no gender is stated. Filed under friends, couple and twins. Emoji 12.0.
π«Woman and man holding handsU+1F46B. Its Unicode character name is MAN AND WOMAN HOLDING HANDS. Filed under friends, couple and dating. Emoji 0.6.
πWomen holding handsU+1F46D. Its Unicode character name is TWO WOMEN HOLDING HANDS. The only emoji filed under sisters and girls. Emoji 1.0.
π₯Busts in silhouetteU+1F465. Filed under friends and bff. Emoji 1.0.
πCouple with heartU+1F491. Filed under couple and together. Emoji 0.6.
π€HandshakeU+1F91D. The emoji inside every mixed pair. Filed under handshake and shake. Emoji 3.0.
π«ΆHeart handsU+1FAF6. Filed under hands and heart. Emoji 14.0.
π«²Leftwards handU+1FAF2. Filed under hold and reach. Emoji 14.0.
π«People huggingU+1FAC2. The only emoji filed under friendship. Emoji 13.0.
π―People with bunny earsU+1F46F. Filed under bestie and pair. Emoji 0.6.
π»RestroomU+1F6BB. Unicode's names list points from the woman and man holding hands to this sign. Emoji 0.6.
π«±Rightwards handU+1FAF1. Filed under hold and reach. Emoji 14.0.
Hand in hand, in other languages 8
de la manoSpanish: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
de mΓ£os dadasPortuguese: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
el eleTurkish: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
Hand in HandGerman: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
kΓ€si kΓ€dessΓ€Finnish: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
main dans la mainFrench: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
mano nella manoItalian: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
rΔka w rΔkΔPolish: hand in hand, by Wiktionary
Typed pairs 4
(^_^)-(^_^)Two typed faces joined by a hyphen
(^_^)β(^_^)Two typed faces with the infinity sign between them, for a grip that does not let go
(^_^)ββ(^_^)Two typed faces, the maths signs between them as two cupped hands
(^o^)-(^_^)-(^o^)Three in a row, hand in hand
Holding hands combos 12
π§βπ€βπ§π«ππ¬All four, hand in handPeople holding hands, then woman and man holding hands, then women holding hands, then men holding hands.
πΈπ§βπ€βπ§Crossing togetherChildren crossing, then people holding hands.
π«πFriends since schoolSchool, then women holding hands.
π§βπ€βπ§ππ§βπ€βπ§Hand in hand around the worldPeople holding hands, then globe showing Europe-Africa, then people holding hands.
π«πHand in hand at sunsetWoman and man holding hands, then sunset.
π’π§βπ€βπ§Hold on tightRoller coaster, then people holding hands.
π§βπ€βπ§π§βπ€βπ§π§βπ€βπ§Paper chain of peoplePeople holding hands, three times.
βΈοΈπSkating hand in handIce skate, then women holding hands.
π§βπ€βπ§π‘Stay togetherPeople holding hands, then ferris wheel.
π¬β½TeammatesMen holding hands, then soccer ball.
π«±β€οΈπ«²Two hands, one heartRightwards hand, then red heart, then leftwards hand.
π§βπ€βπ§π³Walk in the parkPeople holding hands, then deciduous tree.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-13 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). People holding hands is the sequence U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 (Emoji 12.0); Woman and man holding hands is U+1F46B (Emoji 0.6, character name MAN AND WOMAN HOLDING HANDS), Women holding hands U+1F46D and Men holding hands U+1F46C (both Emoji 1.0, character names TWO WOMEN HOLDING HANDS and TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS; UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt). The emoji list gives each of the four 25 skin tone forms: five where both tones match and twenty mixed. A matching pair of the three older emoji is the character and one skin tone modifier; a mixed pair is a person, a zero width joiner, Handshake, a joiner and a person, each person followed by a modifier, and in a woman and man pair the woman is first. UTS #51, version 18.0, revision 31 (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/), section 2.6.2: Emoji 12.0 added 25 combinations for woman and man holding hands and 15 each for the other three, 70 images; Emoji 12.1 added 10 more sequences each for women, men and people holding hands, the same pairs with the lighter tone first, and an implementation can use the same image for a pair and its mirror image. The same standard (section 2.5) says a system with no single glyph for a joined sequence ignores the joiners and shows the separate emoji. CLDR files bae, bestie, bff, couple, dating, flirt, friends, hand, hold and twins under all four, sisters and girls under Women holding hands alone and brothers and boys under Men holding hands alone. The cross reference from U+1F46B to Restroom is from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): hand in hand (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hand_in_hand) for the sense holding or clasping hands and its translations. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) holds no holding hands. The combo names are this page's own. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the lines and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.