👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏿 Men Holding Hands: Light Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone Meaning in Text & Slang

At face value, Men Holding Hands: Light Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏿 stands for its literal People & Body meaning — but in chats it almost always carries tone. Think of 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏿 as shorthand for the feeling you'd get saying "Men Holding Hands: Light Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone" out loud (Unicode 12.1).

What does 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏿 mean in texting?

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Meaning from a guy vs from a girl

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