Kiss: woman, man: medium-dark skin tone, light skin tone Emoji
People
A composite emoji displaying a woman with medium-dark skin and a man with light skin leaning in to share a kiss, with a small red heart hovering between them. This glyph combines individual characters using a zero-width joiner to represent a specific romantic pairing.
Usage Context
Used to denote affection, celebrate a romantic partnership, or signal a date night. It is a popular choice for social media captions during anniversaries or when posting about a significant other. It functions as a more specific alternative to the standard ๐ or โค๏ธ, allowing users to personalize the representation of their relationship.
History
The ability to represent multi-skin-tone couples arrived as part of the Unicode 9.0 update in 2016. This was a major technical milestone that allowed users to reflect diverse human relationships by linking individual base emojis together through software-level bonding, moving away from the generic yellow-skinned figures of the early internet era.
Details
Glyph
๐ฉ๐พโโคโ๐โ๐จ๐ป
Unicode
U+1F469 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F468 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f469_1f3fe_200d_2764_200d_1f48b_200d_1f468_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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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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