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

People

A composite emoji displaying two men kissing, featuring a light skin tone for the first man and a medium-light skin tone for the second. A small red heart floats between their faces to signal romantic affection.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate same-sex relationships, romantic anniversaries, or general displays of love. It acts as a digital stand-in for affection, often sent during chats with a partner or when sharing photos of a date. It is frequently grouped with related romantic icons like ❤️ or 😘.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This technical workaround allowed platform developers to combine individual person emojis with heart and kiss symbols to create more diverse and inclusive representations of couples that weren't previously available as single characters.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍❤‍💋‍👨🏼

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

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

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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