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

People

A composite emoji displaying a woman with light skin and a man with medium-dark skin leaning in for a kiss, connected by a small red heart icon. It represents a romantic interaction between two people of diverse skin tones.

Usage Context

Used to signal affection, celebrate anniversaries, or act as a digital sign-off in messages between partners. It frequently appears alongside 💕 or 😘 to emphasize a loving sentiment or to announce a date night.

History

This emoji relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) technology, which allows multiple existing characters—the woman, the man, and the heart kiss symbol—to be chained together as a single unit. This implementation became widely supported in 2016 following updates to Unicode's skin tone modifier specifications, which were designed to better represent the global diversity of couples in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍❤‍💋‍👨🏾

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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