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

People

Two individuals of varying medium and medium-dark skin tones sharing a romantic kiss, connected by a small floating red heart. This emoji combines three separate characters into one sequence to depict an intimate moment between a couple.

Usage Context

Widely used in text messages to express affection, confirm a date, or signal a close relationship. It serves as a more specific alternative to the standard kiss mark 💋 or the generic kissing face 😘. People use it to celebrate anniversaries, send a virtual goodnight kiss, or simply show appreciation for a partner.

History

While the basic kiss emoji has existed for years, the ability to specify skin tones for individuals in a couple was made possible by the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence standard adopted by the Unicode Consortium in 2015. This update allowed for more inclusive representation of diverse relationships across digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍❤‍💋‍🧑🏾

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f9d1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

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

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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