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

People

A composite emoji displaying two people with different skin tones sharing a kiss, with a small red heart hovering between them. The individuals are represented by gender-neutral figures, reflecting a focus on the act of affection rather than specific identity.

Usage Context

Used to express romantic affection, flirtation, or the celebration of a relationship. It is the go-to choice for sending a digital 'mwah' or confirming a date night. It is frequently sent alongside other romantic icons like 😘 or ❤️ to emphasize intimacy.

History

This emoji represents the evolution of Unicode's complex ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences, which allow multiple characters to render as a single image. While simple face emojis have existed since the 90s, these multicharacter sequences were introduced in later years to better represent diverse human relationships across global messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍❤‍💋‍🧑🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f9d1_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

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

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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