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

People

A composite emoji displaying two people with varying skin tones leaning in to share a kiss, with a small red heart hovering between them. This sequence uses a Zero Width Joiner to bind individual figures into a single romantic unit.

Usage Context

Used to express affection, confirm a date, or celebrate a romantic relationship. It acts as a visual shorthand for a kiss or a declaration of love, functioning similarly to 😘 or ❤️ when chatting with a partner.

History

This emoji is part of the Unicode effort to make digital representation more inclusive. While early emoji sets were limited in their ability to show diverse pairings, the implementation of gender-neutral characters and skin tone modifiers allows users to customize the figures to better represent themselves or their specific relationships.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍❤‍💋‍🧑🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍❤‍&#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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