Couple with heart: person, person, medium-dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying two people joined by a floating red heart. This version specifically features one individual with medium-dark skin and one with medium-light skin, representing a diverse romantic pairing.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate relationships, anniversaries, or to signify that a user is in a partnership. It is a go-to for social media bios or personal messaging to express affection for a significant other. It is frequently paired with ❤️ or 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 to emphasize the strength of a bond.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines multiple individual character codes to render as a single icon. This technology allowed for the expansion of skin tone modifiers in 2015, moving away from the limited yellow-only faces that characterized early emoji sets on platforms like Docomo and SoftBank.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍❤‍🧑🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍❤‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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