Kiss: person, person, light skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying two people of different skin tones sharing a kiss, with a small red heart hovering between them. This version specifically pairs a light skin tone person with a dark skin tone person to showcase interracial romance.

Usage Context

Used to express affection, confirm a date, or celebrate a relationship. People send this to partners or friends to say 'I love you' or to acknowledge a special moment. It is frequently sent alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🥰 to emphasize the romantic tone of a conversation.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines multiple individual characters—the person, the heart, and the kiss—into a single display. This technology was adopted by the Unicode Consortium to allow for greater diversity in human-centric emojis, letting users represent specific identities and interracial pairings that weren't possible in earlier, more restrictive versions of the standard.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍❤‍💋‍🧑🏿

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f9d1_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#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

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