Kiss: woman, man: medium-dark skin tone, light skin tone Emoji
People
A composite emoji displaying a woman with medium-dark skin and a man with light skin leaning in to share a kiss, with a small red heart hovering between them. This glyph combines individual characters using a zero-width joiner to represent a specific romantic pairing.
Usage Context
Used to denote affection, celebrate a romantic partnership, or signal a date night. It is a popular choice for social media captions during anniversaries or when posting about a significant other. It functions as a more specific alternative to the standard 💋 or ❤️, allowing users to personalize the representation of their relationship.
History
The ability to represent multi-skin-tone couples arrived as part of the Unicode 9.0 update in 2016. This was a major technical milestone that allowed users to reflect diverse human relationships by linking individual base emojis together through software-level bonding, moving away from the generic yellow-skinned figures of the early internet era.
Details
Glyph
👩🏾❤💋👨🏻
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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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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