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馃鈥嶐煠濃�嶐煣� People Holding Hands emoji
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黑料网 does 馃鈥嶐煠濃�嶐煣� People Holding Hands emoji mean?
The people holding hands emoji听(馃鈥嶐煠濃�嶐煣�)听depicts two gender-unspecified people holding hands.
It can be a gender-inclusive representation of romantic involvement or a symbol of cooperation and community.
Where does 馃鈥嶐煠濃�嶐煣� People Holding Hands emoji come from?
Unicode 6.0 in 2010 approved听馃懌听woman and man holding hands, 馃懎听women holding hands, and 馃懍听men holding hands emoji. In 2019, Unicode added people holding hands as a more gender-inclusive option as well as enabled all skin-tone variations for the hand-holders therein. It is composed of a sequence of the听馃 adult,听馃听handshake, and听馃听adult听emoji.
The default emoji features two yellow, gender-unspecified people holding hands as they stand upright.听Twitter’s implementation as of April 2019, however, is identical to its听woman and man holding hands emoji.
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The update, becoming available on devices throughout 2019, was widely hailed as a positive act of social representation and inclusivity.
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— Jennifer Daniel (@jenniferdaniel)
All otter jokes aside, these (and the man-man/woman-woman/gender neutral couples) are the emoji I鈥檓 most excited for in Unicode 12!!
Emoji should look like the real 馃實. It doesn鈥檛 matter how many cute animals you have if you don鈥檛 represent a diversity of races and genders.
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— Monica Dinculescu (@notwaldorf)
Examples of 馃鈥嶐煠濃�嶐煣� People Holding Hands emoji
Who uses 馃鈥嶐煠濃�嶐煣� People Holding Hands emoji?
Prior to implementation of听people holding hands, people have used its constituent sequence of听馃 adult,听馃听handshake, and听馃听adult to indicate teamwork and cooperation, as the handshake doesn’t suggest the same romantic involvement as hand-holding emoji.
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Upon further rollout of听people holding hands emoji in 2019, expect it听to be used for a variety of non-cisgender couples and relationships along with other, non-romantic senses of human community.
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— People of Space: Christoph (@People_Of_Space)
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