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

People

A composite emoji displaying two men standing together, with a small pink heart floating between them. The first figure has a medium skin tone, and the second has a light skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to represent same-sex relationships, romantic partnerships, or celebrations of love. It acts as a direct signifier for LGBTQ+ couples and is frequently used alongside emojis like ❤️ or 💍 to announce engagements or anniversaries.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines multiple individual character codes to render as a single image. It was added to the Unicode standard as part of the push for more inclusive representation of diverse family units and modern relationship structures in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👨🏽‍❤‍👨🏻

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fd_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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