Couple with heart: man, man: light skin tone, medium skin tone Emoji

People

A composite emoji displaying two men standing together with a small, floating red heart between them. This specific version features one man with a light skin tone and the other with a medium skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate same-sex relationships, romantic partnerships, or anniversaries. It is often sent in messages to friends or partners to express affection, declare relationship status, or show support for LGBTQ+ visibility. It frequently appears alongside emojis like ❤️ or 🌈.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. These sequences allow multiple individual characters to be rendered as a single glyph, enabling diverse skin tone combinations and representative family and couple structures that were previously missing from standardized digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍❤‍👨🏽

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

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

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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