The Kiss: Man, Man, Medium Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone emoji (👨🏽❤️💋👨🏿) means two men sharing a romantic kiss, one with a medium skin tone and one with a dark skin tone. It signals love, affection, and intimacy between a male couple, and it lets users represent their own interracial same-sex relationship accurately.
What Does the Kiss: Man, Man, Medium Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone Emoji Mean?
This emoji depicts two men kissing, with the left figure shown in a medium skin tone and the right figure in a dark skin tone, and it stands for romantic love between men.
It belongs to the kiss family of couple emojis, which show two people with a heart and a kiss mark between them. Because the skin tones are set for each person individually, this version lets a couple pick the exact pairing that looks like them, instead of defaulting to the standard yellow version.
The emoji is filed under the People & Body emojis category. In everyday use it carries three layers of meaning at once: romance, same-sex partnership, and visible representation of mixed skin tones in a relationship.
Quick facts
- Name: Kiss: Man, Man, Medium Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone
- Category: People & Body
- Unicode version: 13.1
- Emoji version: 13.1
- Shortcode: :kiss_man_man_medium_skin_tone_dark_skin_tone:
How Is This Emoji Built From Smaller Characters?
This emoji is a sequence of ten codepoints joined together, not a single character.
The sequence runs: U+1F468 (man), U+1F3FD (medium skin tone modifier), U+200D (zero width joiner), U+2764 (heavy black heart), U+FE0F (variation selector that requests emoji style), U+200D, U+1F48B (kiss mark), U+200D, U+1F468 (man), and U+1F3FF (dark skin tone modifier).
The zero width joiner glues the pieces into one picture on systems that support it. If a device does not recognize the whole sequence, you may see the individual parts displayed separately: a man, a heart, a kiss mark, and another man, each with a skin tone swatch beside it. That fallback is a handy way to tell the difference between a rendering problem and a mistake in what you copied.
The Skin Tone Support field for this emoji reads "No," which simply means you cannot apply a further skin tone modifier to it. The two tones are already baked into the sequence.
How Do You Use the Kiss: Man, Man, Medium Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone Emoji?
You use it to express romantic affection toward a male partner, to celebrate your own relationship, or to show support for same-sex couples.
Most people send it in one of three ways: as a loving message to a partner, as a caption on a couple photo, or as a reaction to a milestone such as an engagement, anniversary, or wedding. It works as a stand-alone reply or as an accent at the end of a sentence.
Example messages
- Three years today and I would choose you every single time 👨🏽❤️💋👨🏿
- Date night with my favorite person 👨🏽❤️💋👨🏿 dinner and a movie
- Congratulations to the happiest couple I know 👨🏽❤️💋👨🏿
When you want the generic version without a skin tone choice, the standard Kiss: Man, Man emoji is available and covers the same idea.
What Does 👨🏽❤️💋👨🏿 Mean in Texting and on Social Media?
In texting it is a direct, affectionate gesture that usually says "I love you" or "I'm thinking about you romantically."
On social media it often appears on anniversary posts, Pride month content, engagement announcements, and photos of couples. Because it is more specific than a plain heart, it communicates who the message is about as well as what the feeling is.
It also works as a form of visibility. Many users with mixed skin tones in their relationships have historically had few emoji options that matched them, so choosing this combination is a small act of self-representation. That is why the emoji often shows up beside words like love, pride, and family.
Common tones of use
- Sweet and sincere: anniversaries, love notes, wedding wishes
- Playful: flirting between partners, teasing captions on couple selfies
- Celebratory: Pride posts, engagement news, shared achievements
Which Emojis Pair Well With the Kiss: Man, Man, Medium Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone Emoji?
Heart emojis, celebration symbols, and reaction emojis pair best, because they reinforce the romantic message without changing its meaning.
- ❤️ or 💞: adds extra warmth to a love message
- 🌈: ties the message to LGBTQ+ pride
- 🎉: turns it into a celebration for an engagement or milestone
- 💍: signals a proposal, engagement, or wedding
- 👀: adds a teasing, gossipy edge when you are hinting at a new relationship
- 👍: a light approving reply when a friend shares couple news
If you want help turning a whole sentence into an emoji message, the Emoji Translator can suggest combinations to use alongside this one.
How Does This Emoji Look on Different Platforms?
Every major platform draws its own artwork for the sequence, so the faces, outfits, and style of the kiss differ from device to device, but the overall meaning stays the same.
According to the platform data for this emoji, support starts at these versions:
- Apple: iOS 14.5+ and macOS 11.3+
- Google: Android 12.0+
- Microsoft: Windows 11+
- Samsung: One UI 4.0+
- WhatsApp: 2.21.16+
- Twitter: Twemoji 13.1+
Because this sequence arrived with Unicode and Emoji version 13.1, older operating systems will not show the intended image. If a friend is on an older phone, they may see two separate man emojis, a heart, and a kiss mark instead of one combined picture. If that happens, the message is still understandable, but it will not look like a single kiss.
When Should You Avoid the Kiss: Man, Man, Medium Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone Emoji?
Avoid it when the romantic meaning does not fit the relationship or the setting, such as formal work emails or messages to people you do not know well.
It is an intimate emoji, so context matters. Sending it to a colleague, a client, or a casual acquaintance can read as inappropriate or confusing. In group chats, it is best used when everyone knows it refers to a couple, whether yourself and a partner or friends you are congratulating.
Do not use it as a joke at the expense of same-sex couples or as a mocking reaction. The emoji exists so real couples can see themselves in their messages, and treating it as a punchline undermines that purpose.
It is also worth being careful about assumptions. Choosing these skin tones for someone else's relationship can feel presumptuous, so reserve this exact pairing for your own relationship or for a couple you know it reflects.
How Does It Differ From Similar Emojis?
It differs from the plain kiss emoji mainly in specificity: it shows two men, a kiss mark, and a chosen skin tone for each person.
The standard Kiss: Man, Man uses default yellow figures with no skin tone. A heart emoji alone expresses love without showing who is involved. A couple-with-heart emoji shows affection without a kiss. This one is the most precise of the group for a male couple with medium and dark skin tones, which is its main advantage over simpler options.
How Do You Copy and Paste the Kiss: Man, Man, Medium Skin Tone, Dark Skin Tone Emoji?
You can copy it with one click on this page and paste it into any app that supports Emoji 13.1 or later.
Click the copy button near the emoji at the top of this page, then paste it into your message, post, bio, or document with the usual paste shortcut or by long-pressing in a text field on mobile. Because the emoji is a ten-codepoint sequence, copying the whole thing from this page is much safer than trying to assemble the pieces by hand, which can leave out the joiners and produce separate characters.
If the result looks like two men with a heart and a kiss mark instead of a single image, the app or device probably does not support the sequence yet, and updating the operating system usually fixes it. For more ideas on what to send next, browse the trending emojis for what other people are using right now.
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