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

People

A composite emoji displaying a woman with dark skin and a man with medium-light skin, connected by a vibrant red heart floating between them. This is an all-in-one graphic representing a romantic union between two people of differing skin tones.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate relationships, anniversaries, or to announce a new partnership on social media. People often share this alongside ❤️ or 💍 to signal long-term commitment or public displays of affection. It serves as a visual shorthand for a couple without needing to type out a full sentence.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 8.0, released in 2015. Before this technical update, emojis were static, individual characters; the ZWJ allowed platforms to stitch multiple separate characters together to create a single, complex image, drastically expanding the diversity of interpersonal representations in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👩🏿‍❤‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#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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