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

People

A composite emoji featuring two people with different skin tones leaning in to share a kiss, with a small red heart floating between them. This version specifically pairs a medium-dark skin tone individual with a medium-light skin tone partner.

Usage Context

Used to express romantic affection, flirtation, or to celebrate a relationship milestone. People often send this to a partner to signify a 'goodnight' kiss, show love, or emphasize a message with a romantic tone. It is frequently sent alongside related romantic icons like ❤️ or 😍.

History

This emoji is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines multiple individual character codes to render as a single image. While kiss emojis existed in earlier standards, the ability to specify skin tone combinations for diverse couples was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019 to provide better representation for global users.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏾‍❤‍💋‍🧑🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f9d1_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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