Kiss Emoji

People

A side-profile depiction of two people with eyes closed, leaning toward each other with their lips touching. The design focuses on the intimacy of a romantic connection between two individuals.

Usage Context

Used to express affection, confirm a relationship status, or celebrate milestones like anniversaries and weddings. It is frequently sent as a sign of endearment in text messages, often appearing alongside ❤️ or 💋 to reinforce the romantic tone.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to expand human-centric imagery. The emoji evolved from early text-based emoticons like :-* and has since been updated across platforms to reflect diverse gender pairings and skin tones.

Details

Glyph

💏

Unicode

U+1F48F

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f48f:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC8F;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository