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

People

A representation of two men joined by a floating red heart, featuring the medium-dark skin tone for the first man and the dark skin tone for the second. This combination shows a committed romantic partnership between two people of color.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate relationships, anniversaries, or simply to show affection for a significant other. It frequently appears in social media captions alongside ❤️ or 😍 to express love and solidarity within the LGBTQ+ community.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines separate man, heart, and skin tone modifiers to create a single rendered image. It represents the ongoing evolution of Unicode to better reflect the diversity of modern relationships, building upon earlier, more limited character sets that lacked support for same-sex pairings.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍❤‍👨🏿

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

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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