Couple with heart: man, man: medium-dark skin tone, dark skin tone Emoji

People

A representation of two men joined by a floating red heart, featuring the medium-dark skin tone for the first man and the dark skin tone for the second. This combination shows a committed romantic partnership between two people of color.

Usage Context

Used to celebrate relationships, anniversaries, or simply to show affection for a significant other. It frequently appears in social media captions alongside ❤️ or 😍 to express love and solidarity within the LGBTQ+ community.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines separate man, heart, and skin tone modifiers to create a single rendered image. It represents the ongoing evolution of Unicode to better reflect the diversity of modern relationships, building upon earlier, more limited character sets that lacked support for same-sex pairings.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍❤‍👨🏿

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory family

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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