Kiss: man, man: dark skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji showing two men kissing, featuring one man with a dark skin tone and one with a medium skin tone. A small red heart floats between them, signifying a romantic connection.

Usage Context

Used to express romantic affection, celebrate anniversaries, or identify as a gay couple in digital communication. It is a popular way to send a digital 'mwah' or signify a date night, often appearing alongside ❤️ or 😘 to emphasize feelings of love and intimacy.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines separate character codes for two men, a heart, and a kiss into a single glyph. These complex sequences were developed as part of the Unicode Consortium's push for better representation, allowing users to accurately reflect diverse real-world relationships.

Details

Glyph

👨🏿‍❤‍💋‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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

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