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

People

A composite emoji displaying two men kissing, featuring a medium-dark skin tone for one figure and a light skin tone for the other. A small red heart floats between them to signify affection.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate romantic partnerships, anniversaries, or to send a digital smooch. It is frequently sent alongside messages of endearment or as a response to news about a relationship. It serves as a more inclusive alternative to generic couple emojis like 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 or 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, which allowed platforms to combine individual person emojis with hearts and gender modifiers to represent diverse modern relationships.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍❤‍💋‍👨🏻

Unicode

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

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

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

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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