Couple with heart: man, man: medium-dark skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

Two men facing each other with a floating red heart between them, rendered with medium-dark and medium skin tones. The figures represent a romantic relationship between two men, highlighting commitment and affection.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate relationships, anniversaries, or public displays of affection. It is frequently sent in direct messages between partners or used in social media bios to denote relationship status, often grouped with emojis like ❤️ or 💍.

History

This sequence was created using ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) technology, which allows platform developers to combine individual character codes into a single displayed image. While the base man emoji has existed since the early days of Unicode, the ability to display diverse, gender-specific couples was standardized in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 to better represent the breadth of human relationships.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍❤‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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