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

People

A composite emoji displaying a woman with a light skin tone and a man with a medium-light skin tone leaning in to share a kiss, connected by a small red heart icon.

Usage Context

This is a versatile tool for expressing affection, romantic interest, or celebrating relationship milestones. It is frequently sent as a digital sign-off in texts to partners or used to announce a budding relationship. It serves as a more specific, identity-focused alternative to the classic 😘 or the standard 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 couple emoji.

History

This emoji relies on the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, a technical workaround implemented in the mid-2010s to allow multiple separate characters to render as a single image. This development allowed for diverse skin tone combinations, moving past the static, default-colored characters found in early messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍❤‍💋‍👨🏼

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍❤‍&#xD83D;&#xDC8B;‍&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#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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