Couple with heart: person, person, dark skin tone, medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying two people standing side-by-side with a floating pink heart hovering between them. This version specifically features one individual with a dark skin tone and another with a medium-light skin tone.

Usage Context

This is primarily used to announce relationships, celebrate anniversaries, or express affection for a partner. It serves as a modern digital shorthand for 'couple goals' and is frequently paired with ❤️ or 🥰 to emphasize feelings of love and commitment in text messages.

History

While the base heart-between-people emoji was added to Unicode in 2010, the ability to customize the skin tones of individual people within the sequence arrived later as part of the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence updates in 2019. This allowed for more inclusive representation of diverse, real-world relationships in mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏿‍❤‍🧑🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3ff_200d_2764_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍❤‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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