Couple with heart: man, man: medium-light skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

A digital representation of two men, one with a medium-light skin tone and one with a medium skin tone, positioned with a floating red heart between them. This character joins two individual male figures with a heart icon to display a romantic partnership.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to celebrate same-sex relationships, mark anniversaries, or express affection for a partner. It serves as a more inclusive alternative to the traditional man-woman pairing of 👩‍❤️‍👨 and is often used alongside romantic icons like 💕 or 😘 to convey warmth and commitment.

History

The ability to represent diverse couples and skin tones is a relatively recent development in digital communication. This specific variation became possible following the implementation of Unicode’s ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences, which allowed platforms to combine individual gender and skin tone modifiers into a single, cohesive character string to better represent real-world diversity.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍❤‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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