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

People

A composite emoji displaying two people standing side-by-side with a floating red heart between them. This version specifically features a light skin tone for the first individual and a dark skin tone for the second, highlighting a multi-ethnic relationship.

Usage Context

Used to express affection, celebrate anniversaries, or declare a relationship status. It serves as a visual shorthand for being 'off the market' or showing support for a partner. People often pair it with ❤️ or 💍 when making major life announcements on social media.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines multiple Unicode characters to render as a single image. While early emojis were limited to generic faces, the push for diverse representation led to the 2015 rollout of skin tone modifiers, allowing users to better reflect the reality of modern, globalized relationships.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏻‍❤‍🧑🏿

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f9d1_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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