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

People

Two men standing side-by-side with a floating red heart positioned between them. This version displays one man with a dark skin tone and the other with a medium-dark skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate relationships, anniversaries, or simply to show affection between partners. It is a popular way to represent modern diverse partnerships in digital chats, often used alongside 🏳️‍🌈 or ❤️ to express pride and support.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines separate man and heart emojis into a single rendered character. While the individual components date back to early Unicode releases, the ability to modify skin tones for complex family and couple sequences was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 to provide more inclusive representation.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍❤‍👨🏾

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

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