People & Body · Emoji 12.0
🧑🤝🧑People Holding Hands Emoji
🧑🤝🧑 means people holding hands. It’s used to show friendship, connection, and togetherness.
🧑🤝🧑 means people holding hands.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :people_
holding_ hands: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧑🤝🧑 People Holding Hands emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
People Holding Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9D1. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
People 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 :people_holding_hands:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F9D1.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧑🤝🧑 People Holding Hands emoji
No picker to hand? The people holding hands can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
People Holding Hands emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the people holding hands as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
People Holding Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around people 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.
07 — Around the world
What 🧑🤝🧑 means in other countries
A deliberately generic, gender-neutral connection symbol, built specifically to avoid the romantic assumptions gendered pairs can trigger.
Preferred when you want 'connection' without implying a couple.
Neutral way to represent teamwork, support, or solidarity between people.
Before you send it: A safe default whenever you want to show togetherness without specifying relationship or gender.
08 — Apps
What 🧑🤝🧑 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9D1, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🧑🤝🧑 vs 👭 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
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.
Unicode name: Women Holding Hands
Code: U+1F46D · added 2015
Shortcode: :two_women_holding_hands:
Generally, it means “two friends” or “female friends.”
11 — History
Where the 🧑🤝🧑 People Holding Hands emoji came from
It arrived with the 12.0 release of the standard, which dates the people holding hands to 2019.
Same character every time — U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 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.
People Holding Hands was approved as U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ