People & Body · Emoji 0.6
👫Woman and Man Holding Hands Emoji
Generally, 👫 means someone is talking about a couple or a romantic relationship. It’s often used to show support or excitement about a couple.
The 👫 emoji shows a woman and a man holding hands.
- Unicode
- U+1F46B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :man_
and_ woman_ holding_ hands: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👫 Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the woman and man holding hands has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji skin tones
👫 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :man_and_woman_holding_hands:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the woman and man holding hands, code point U+1F46B.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👫 Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F46B when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
07 — Combinations
Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman and man holding hands for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👫 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 👫 means in other countries
The default, least-ambiguous way to represent a couple or close pair — reads consistently across cultures and platforms.
Standard, widely understood shorthand for a romantic couple.
Occasionally used for close opposite-sex friends without romantic intent.
Rarely misread as anything other than a pair of people together.
Before you send it: Safe go-to for representing a pair in almost any romantic or friendly context — no real cultural landmines here.
10 — Apps
What 👫 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
👫 vs 👭 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman and Man Holding Hands
Code: U+1F46B · added 2010
Shortcode: :man_and_woman_holding_hands:
Generally, 👫 means someone is talking about a couple or a romantic relationship.
Unicode name: Women Holding Hands
Code: U+1F46D · added 2015
Shortcode: :two_women_holding_hands:
Generally, it means “two friends” or “female friends.”
13 — History
Where the 👫 Woman and Man Holding Hands emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F46B never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👫 existed there as
SoftBank E428.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Woman and Man Holding Hands was approved as U+1F46B and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👫 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ