The Kiss: Person, Person, Medium-dark Skin Tone, Medium-light Skin Tone emoji (🧑🏾❤️💋🧑🏼) means two people sharing a romantic kiss, with a heart between them. It shows affection, love, and intimacy between partners. The skin tones are set individually, so a medium-dark and a medium-light person can represent themselves exactly, without gender being specified.
What Does the Kiss: Person, Person, Medium-dark Skin Tone, Medium-light Skin Tone Emoji Mean?
This emoji means a romantic kiss between two people, one with a medium-dark skin tone and one with a medium-light skin tone.
It belongs to the kissing couple family of emojis, which depict two figures leaning toward each other with a red heart between them. Unlike older couple emojis that defaulted to a man and a woman, this version uses the gender-neutral "person" base character, so it fits any pairing of partners.
The emoji communicates tenderness, romance, and closeness. It is most often used to mark a loving moment, to say "I love you" without words, or to celebrate a relationship milestone.
Why Does This Emoji Have Two Different Skin Tones?
The two skin tones let each partner be shown as they actually look, which is why this version exists as its own emoji.
Unicode 13.1 added a large set of couple emojis in which each of the two people can carry a separate skin tone modifier. Before that, a kissing couple emoji could only show both people in the same tone or in the default yellow. The update made it possible for interracial and multi-tone couples to see themselves in their messages.
This particular emoji pairs the medium-dark tone (the Fitzpatrick type 5 modifier, U+1F3FE) with the medium-light tone (type 3, U+1F3FC). Both people are shown as gender-neutral figures.
How Is It Built Technically?
The emoji is a ZWJ (zero width joiner) sequence made of ten codepoints. It combines a person with a skin tone, a joiner, a red heart, a joiner, a kiss mark, a joiner, and a second person with a different skin tone.
- Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC
- Unicode version: 13.1
- Emoji version: 13.1
- Category: People & Body
- Shortcode: :kiss_person_person_medium_dark_skin_tone_medium_light_skin_tone:
Because it is a sequence, a device that does not support it will show its separate parts: two person emojis with skin tones, a heart, and a kiss mark, instead of one image.
How Do You Use This Emoji in Texting and on Social Media?
You use it to express romantic affection toward a partner or to celebrate a couple, whether in a private message or a public post.
In texting, it works as a warm sign-off or a loving reaction. It carries more feeling than a simple heart, because it shows physical affection between two people. Many couples use it as a shorthand for "I love you" or "kisses."
On social media, it commonly appears in anniversary posts, couple photo captions, and relationship announcements. It is also popular in comments on a friend's engagement or wedding photo, where it signals happiness for the pair.
- Three years with you and every day still feels like the first. 🧑🏾❤️💋🧑🏼
- Goodnight, my love. See you in the morning 🧑🏾❤️💋🧑🏼
- Finally official! Best decision I ever made 🧑🏾❤️💋🧑🏼
What Is the Difference Between This Emoji and Other Kiss Emojis?
This emoji shows two people kissing each other, while single-face kiss emojis show one face sending a kiss.
The face emojis such as Face Blowing a Kiss are playful and can be aimed at friends, family, or a crush. The couple kiss emoji is more intimate, because it depicts the act of kissing between two partners rather than a gesture directed at the reader.
It also differs from the standard couple with heart emojis. Those show two people with a heart but no kiss, which reads as sweet and affectionate. The kiss version adds a more romantic, physically close tone. If you want a gentler feeling, the couple with heart is the milder choice.
How Does This Emoji Look on Different Platforms?
Every major platform draws its own version of the emoji, but all show two people kissing with a heart between them and the two requested skin tones.
Design details such as face shape, hair, clothing, and the style of the heart vary by vendor. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp, and Twitter each use their own artwork, so the same message can look slightly different to the sender and the recipient.
Support depends on the software version, since this emoji arrived with Emoji 13.1:
- 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+
If you or the person you are messaging has an older device, the emoji may show up as a row of separate symbols. Updating the operating system usually fixes this.
Which Emojis Pair Well With This Kiss Emoji?
Hearts, sparkles, and celebratory symbols pair best, because they strengthen the romantic mood.
Since this emoji belongs to the People & Body emoji category, it also sits naturally beside other expressive figures and gestures. A thumbs up works well when reacting to a couple's good news, and the eyes emoji can add a teasing tone when you are hinting at a new romance.
- Red heart or sparkling heart for extra warmth
- Ring or champagne for engagements and weddings
- Sunset or city scenes for date night captions
- Rose or bouquet for anniversaries and Valentine's Day
If you are not sure which emojis suit a message, the Emoji Translator can turn a sentence into emojis and give you ideas. You can also check trending emojis to see what people are using right now.
When Should You Avoid This Emoji?
Avoid it in professional, family, or formal conversations, and anywhere a romantic message could be misread.
The emoji is clearly romantic and physically intimate. Sending it to a coworker, a classmate, or someone you are not dating can create confusion or discomfort, even if you meant it lightheartedly. In a group chat, it can also read as oversharing if the relationship is private.
It is worth thinking twice before using it in these situations:
- Work chats and email, where it can seem inappropriate
- Early dating, when the other person may not feel the same way yet
- Messages to relatives, where a heart or smile is usually safer
Also remember that the skin tones are specific. Choose this version when it reflects the people you want to represent, and use the default or another tone combination when it does not.
How Do You Copy and Paste This Emoji?
You can copy it with one click on this page, then paste it anywhere that accepts text.
Click the emoji or the copy button at the top of the page, and it goes straight to your clipboard. Then open your messaging app, social media post, document, or email, and paste it with Ctrl+V on Windows or Command+V on a Mac. On a phone, press and hold in the text field and choose Paste.
If the emoji appears as several separate symbols after pasting, the app or device probably does not support Emoji 13.1 yet. Updating the operating system or the app generally solves it. For more emojis from the same group, browse the People & Body category and copy any of them the same way.
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