Woman and man holding hands

A woman and a man holding hands. It stands for a couple, a date, or a close friendship between a woman and a man.

Anniversaries, double dates, and relationship updates are typical, and it can also mean a brother and sister. It fits a casual plan to walk somewhere together, like “park later? 👫”.

Facts

Woman and man holding hands 👫 is an emoji in the people and body category, under family. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in 25 skin tone combinations, one tone for each person. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :couple: or :woman_and_man_holding_hands:. People also look for it with words like “bae”, “bestie”, “bff”, or “couple”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
2. 2019Skin tones added (Emoji 12.0)
3. 2019Mixed skin tones added, one tone per person (Emoji 12.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Unicode 6.0