Women holding hands

Two women holding hands. It means sisters, best friends, or a couple, depending on context.

Friends send it to their bestie, sisters use it for each other, and many women use it for a girlfriend or wife. It appears in Pride posts as a symbol of lesbian couples and in friendship posts as plain affection.

Facts

Women holding hands 👭 is an emoji in the people and body category, under family. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. It comes in 25 skin tone combinations, one tone for each person. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :two_women_holding_hands: or :women_holding_hands:. People also look for it with words like “bae”, “bestie”, “bff”, or “couple”.

Timeline

1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
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 · Emoji 1.0