People & Body · Emoji 1.0
👭Women Holding Hands Emoji
Generally, it means “two friends” or “female friends.” It’s a simple way to show you’re talking about women and their connection.
The 👭 emoji shows two women holding hands.
- Unicode
- U+1F46D
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :two_
women_ holding_ hands: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👭 Women Holding Hands emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 13.
People also look for it as girls emoji.
02 — Platforms
Women Holding Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the women holding hands as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Women 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
Women Holding Hands emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :two_women_holding_hands:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the women holding hands, code point U+1F46D.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👭 Women Holding Hands emoji
No picker to hand? The women holding hands can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Women 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
Women Holding Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around women 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
Who sent the women holding hands and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👭 means in other countries
An everyday sign of friendship between women across much of the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa — Western viewers often default to a romantic reading.
Two women holding hands in public is ordinary platonic friendship, unrelated to romance.
Frequently assumed to signal a couple or LGBTQ+ relationship.
Common affectionate gesture between close friends, not romantic.
Before you send it: Add words if the platonic meaning matters — the same image gets read differently by region.
10 — Apps
What 👭 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F46D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
👭 vs 🧑🤝🧑 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Women Holding Hands
Code: U+1F46D · added 2015
Shortcode: :two_women_holding_hands:
Generally, it means “two friends” or “female friends.”
Unicode name: People Holding Hands
Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 · added 2019
Shortcode: :people_holding_hands:
🧑🤝🧑 means people holding hands.
13 — History
Where the 👭 Women Holding Hands emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the women holding hands to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F46D 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.
Women Holding Hands was approved as U+1F46D and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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