Kiss: man, man: medium-dark skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

People

A digital representation of two men sharing a kiss, featuring one man with a medium-dark skin tone and another with a dark skin tone. A small red heart floats above their heads to indicate affection.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to express romantic love, celebrate an anniversary, or show support for same-sex relationships. It is frequently sent in texts to partners or used when posting photos of couples. It is a more specific, diverse variation of the standard 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 emoji.

History

The ability to customize skin tones for specific couple emojis was made possible by the introduction of the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This technology allowed developers to combine individual person emojis with skin tone modifiers to better represent the global diversity of real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍❤‍💋‍👨🏿

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#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.

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