Kiss: woman, man: light skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying a woman with a light skin tone and a man with a medium-light skin tone leaning in to share a kiss, connected by a small red heart icon.

Usage Context

This is a versatile tool for expressing affection, romantic interest, or celebrating relationship milestones. It is frequently sent as a digital sign-off in texts to partners or used to announce a budding relationship. It serves as a more specific, identity-focused alternative to the classic 😘 or the standard 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 couple emoji.

History

This emoji relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, a technical workaround implemented in the mid-2010s to allow multiple separate characters to render as a single image. This development allowed for diverse skin tone combinations, moving past the static, default-colored characters found in early messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍❤‍💋‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#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.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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