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

People

A composite emoji displaying a woman with medium skin tone and a man with dark skin tone leaning in for a kiss, connected by a small floating red heart icon.

Usage Context

This emoji acts as a digital shorthand for romantic affection, dating, or celebrating a relationship. It is frequently used in text conversations between partners or when discussing relationship milestones, often alongside other romantic icons like 😍 or 💑.

History

While the basic kiss emoji has been around for decades, the ability to combine specific genders and skin tones was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This technology allowed platforms to support diverse representations of couples rather than relying on a single, non-customizable character.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍❤‍💋‍👨🏿

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#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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