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🧑🤝🧑People Holding Hands Emoji
Tagged bae, bestie and bff, 🧑🤝🧑 people holding hands sits in Unicode's Family group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0 (2019) at U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1.
What 🧑🤝🧑 people holding hands means
Couples, kisses, and household groupings. Every family emoji is a ZWJ sequence - 👨👩👧 is a man, a woman and a girl joined by invisible characters - which is why unsupported combinations break apart into separate people on older software. Used for announcements, anniversaries and family photos, and occasionally to describe a group chat.
Unicode tags this one bae, bestie and bff and files it under People & Body → Family.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🧑🤝🧑 is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 | |
| CSS | \1F9D1\200D\1F91D\200D\1F9D1 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F91D}\u{200D}\u{1F9D1} | |
| Python | \U0001F9D1\U0000200D\U0001F91D\U0000200D\U0001F9D1 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDD1\u200D\uD83E\uDD1D\u200D\uD83E\uDDD1 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{1f91d}\u{200d}\u{1f9d1} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F91D}\u{200D}\u{1F9D1} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F91D}\u{200D}\u{1F9D1} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A4%9D%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A7%91 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F A4 9D E2 80 8D F0 9F A7 91 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDD1 200D D83E DD1D 200D D83E DDD1 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nkeKAjfCfpJ3igI3wn6eR | |
| Decimal | 129489 8205 129309 8205 129489 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧑🤝🧑 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧑🤝🧑
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “people holding hands”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bae”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9d1and Enter. - HTML — paste
🧑‍🤝‍🧑.
How 🧑🤝🧑 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧑🤝🧑Apple
- 🧑🤝🧑Segoe
- 🧑🤝🧑Noto
- 🧑🤝🧑System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧑🤝🧑 people holding hands emoji mean?+
🧑🤝🧑 is the people holding hands emoji, tagged bae, bestie and bff. Couples, kisses, and household groupings. Every family emoji is a ZWJ sequence - 👨👩👧 is a man, a woman and a girl joined by invisible characters - which is why unsupported combinations break apart into separate people on older software. Used for announcements, anniversaries and family photos, and occasionally to describe a group chat.
What is the Unicode code for 🧑🤝🧑?+
people holding hands is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F91D U+200D U+1F9D1. In HTML that is 🧑‍🤝‍🧑, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\1F91D\200D\1F9D1, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F91D}\u{200D}\u{1F9D1}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧑🤝🧑 emoji added?+
people holding hands got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Family in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧑🤝🧑 people holding hands.