Couple with heart: person, person, medium-dark skin tone, light skin tone Emoji
People
A composite emoji displaying two individuals joined by a floating red heart. This specific version features one person with medium-dark skin tone and another with light skin tone, highlighting diversity in romantic partnerships.
Usage Context
Used to celebrate relationships, anniversaries, or to denote that a user is 'off the market.' People frequently send this to express affection for a partner or to show support for interracial couples. It is often combined with other relationship-based emojis like ๐ or ๐น to signal engagement or romantic milestones.
History
This emoji was made possible through the implementation of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences, which allow multiple individual emoji characters to be rendered as a single glyph. As Unicode expanded its support for skin tone modifiers, these combination sequences were introduced to ensure that digital representations of love could better reflect the diversity of real-world relationships.
Details
Glyph
๐ง๐พโโคโ๐ง๐ป
Unicode
U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f9d1_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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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. ยฉ 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.