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

People

A composite emoji displaying two men kissing, with one appearing in a medium-light skin tone and the other in a dark skin tone. A small red heart floats between them, signifying affection and romantic intimacy.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to celebrate same-sex relationships, dating milestones, or anniversaries. It is a direct way to express love or a playful 'mwah' in digital conversations. Users often combine it with 🏳️‍🌈 to signal pride or pair it with 💍 when announcing an engagement.

History

These complex character sequences were enabled by the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) mechanism, which allows multiple existing emojis to be combined into a single, cohesive graphic. This specific combination reflects the expansion of Unicode standards to better represent diverse human relationships that were missing from early, limited sets of character icons.

Details

Glyph

👨🏼‍❤‍💋‍👨🏿

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fc_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#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

Twemoji Attribution

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

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