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An adult&nbsp;with no gender specified.&nbsp;This emoji may be used to talk about adults in a gender-inclusive way.

Variants include <a href="/woman/">👩 Woman</a> and <a href="/man/">👨 Man</a>.

Person

A&nbsp;pale skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

<ul>
	<li>Type 1 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles</li>
	<li>Type 2 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;White; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes</li>
</ul>

This is a combination of type 1&nbsp;(pale white) and type 2 (white). Despite the descriptions, Apple&rsquo;s artwork tends to display this type-1-2 skin tone modifier with dark hair.

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

Two hands performing a handshake gesture, indicating a&nbsp;cordial greeting between friends or associates.

As of late 2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> recommendations, this emoji design has multiple <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">skin tone modifier</a> options. Certain platforms did, however, support a small number of single skin tone options for the handshake emoji prior to 2021 (e.g. both <a href="/google/android-7.1/new/">Google</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/new/">Samsung</a> in 2017).&nbsp;<a href="/handshakes/">View all handshake emojis</a>.

Handshake

12.0 Emojipedia

People Holding Hands: Light Skin Tone

People Holding Hands: Medium-Light Skin Tone

People Holding Hands: Medium Skin Tone

People Holding Hands: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

People Holding Hands: Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

Sample emoji designs developed by Emojipedia for illustrative purposes.

Original sample images from Emojipedia&nbsp;visualizing how new emojis may look when they come to fruition.&nbsp;These mockups are created at the candidate stage in a glossy&nbsp;style, and may or may not resemble final versions from each platform vendor.

Please feel welcome to use these images in&nbsp;press coverage,&nbsp;with attribution to&nbsp;Emojipedia. When using any of these images online,&nbsp;a link to this page would be appreciated. These original images are &copy; 2022&nbsp;Emojipedia.

Sample images from Emojipedia for upcoming emojis.

Emojipedia Sample Images [Updated July 2023]

Sample Images for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a> showing how the new emojis&nbsp;may have looked when coming to platforms throughout 2019 and 2020. Created by Emojipedia, these show all 230 new emojis approved in 2019. More about the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/230-new-emojis-in-final-list-for-2019/">final emoji list for 2019</a>.

Please feel welcome to use these images in&nbsp;press coverage,&nbsp;with attribution to&nbsp;Emojipedia. When using any of these images online,&nbsp;a link to this page would be appreciated. These original images are &copy; 2019 Emojipedia.

Original sample images&nbsp;visualizing the new emojis from&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>; released&nbsp;March 27, 2017.&nbsp;These were&nbsp;created in an&nbsp;Apple-like&nbsp;style by Emojipedia; as an indication of how they might be displayed when released by vendors.

There are a total of 69 new unique images in this collection.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/final-2017-emoji-list/">Learn more about this update</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/9hIJLOgdSZo">view the video</a>&nbsp;of every new emoji.

Please include a link to Emojipedia for attribution when using&nbsp;these images online. Original sample images on this page are &copy; 2017 Emojipedia.&nbsp;Dumpling, Fortune Cookie, Takeout Box and Chopsticks designs were&nbsp;based on original designs from <a href="http://www.yiyinglu.com">Yiying Lu</a>&nbsp;in this release.

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🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻 People Holding Hands: Light Skin Tone on Emojipedia Sample Images 5.0

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