Kiss: person, person, light skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying two people with specific light and medium-light skin tones leaning toward each other with a small red heart hovering between their faces to indicate a kiss.

Usage Context

Used to express affection, romantic interest, or a celebration of a relationship. It is the go-to choice for sending a virtual 'mwah' or confirming a date. Users frequently pair this with 😍 to emphasize strong attraction or ❤️ to signal a committed partnership.

History

This emoji relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, which allows mobile operating systems to combine individual character parts—two people and a heart—into a single graphical unit. This technical evolution was essential for supporting diverse relationship expressions in Unicode 10.0, released in 2017, moving away from fixed gendered pairs toward more inclusive representations.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍❤‍💋‍🧑🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

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

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