Sweet, simple, and unmistakably affectionate, the men holding hands: medium-light skin tone emoji shows two guys side by side, hands clasped, radiating “we’re together” energy. People use it to signal a relationship (soft-launch on the timeline, anyone?), celebrate LGBTQ+ love, or just give wholesome support between pals who are tighter than a playlist on repeat. It pops up in Pride posts, date-night texts, and fandom shipping moments where the comments yell “canon” with zero chill. It can also land playfully or ironically—think bros texting it after surviving IKEA, or someone joking “no homo” while sending the most homo-coded emoji possible.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll typically see two front-facing men with gentle smiles, rounded heads, and a clean, flat design; one often wears a blue top and the other green, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their hands joined in the center. The medium-light skin tone colors their faces and hands, giving a warm, natural look, with simple dark hair and minimal shading that feels very sticker-ready. Visually, it’s neat, symmetrical, and instantly readable at tiny sizes, which is why it slaps as a caption accent for “plus-one secured” or “made it home safe.” During Pride month, it’s frequently paired with rainbow hearts, flags, and glitter gifs for maximum cute-couple energy.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3400 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👬🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👬🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👬 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👬 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f46c, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F46C, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128108, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xAC, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 AC, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 254, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC6C, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc6c, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56428, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F46C 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F46C, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128108, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F46C\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xac\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC6C\uD83C\uDFFC" |
