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

People

A digital representation of two men sharing a kiss, featuring a light skin tone for one figure and a medium-dark skin tone for the other. A small red heart sits between their faces to signify affection.

Usage Context

Used to express romantic feelings, celebrate anniversaries, or declare a relationship status. It serves as a direct way to show intimacy in text messaging or social media posts, often paired with emojis like 💍 or 💕 to emphasize commitment or fondness.

History

This emoji is part of the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which allows individual characters to be combined into a single display. While early messaging platforms were limited to generic faces, the expansion of diverse couple emojis reflects the push for greater inclusivity in digital communication across global platforms since the mid-2010s.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍❤‍💋‍👨🏾

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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