The Kiss: Person, Person, Medium Skin Tone, Medium-dark Skin Tone emoji (🧑🏽❤️💋🧑🏾) shows two gender-neutral people kissing, with a heart between them. It means romantic love, affection, and intimacy. This version uses a medium skin tone for one person and a medium-dark skin tone for the other, so couples can see themselves represented.
What Does the Kiss: Person, Person, Medium Skin Tone, Medium-dark Skin Tone Emoji Mean?
This emoji means romantic affection between two people, shown as a kiss with a heart in the middle.
The image pairs two gender-neutral figures, one with a medium skin tone and one with a medium-dark skin tone. Because neither figure is tied to a gender, the emoji works for any couple: two men, two women, a man and a woman, nonbinary partners, or anyone who wants a neutral romantic symbol.
It belongs to the family of couple emojis that includes the kiss and the couple with heart. The kiss version is the more intimate of the two. It signals a moment of closeness, a declaration of love, or a celebration of a relationship rather than a general fondness.
The specific skin tone pairing matters. Many people spent years sending couple emojis that did not look like them or their partner. This combination lets a couple send an image that reflects their real appearance, which is why the emoji is often chosen deliberately instead of casually.
What Are the Technical Details of This Emoji?
This emoji is a single glyph built from several Unicode characters joined together, and it was added in Unicode 13.1 and Emoji 13.1.
The sequence is made of ten codepoints: U+1F9D1 (person), U+1F3FD (medium skin tone modifier), U+200D (zero width joiner), U+2764 (heavy black heart), U+FE0F (variation selector for emoji style), U+200D, U+1F48B (kiss mark), U+200D, U+1F9D1 (person), and U+1F3FE (medium-dark skin tone modifier).
Its category is People & Body. You can browse related glyphs in the People & Body emoji category. The shortcode is :kiss_person_person_medium_skin_tone_medium_dark_skin_tone:.
The skin tone modifiers are already built into this specific emoji, so it has no further skin tone options. Each person in the pair has its own tone, which is how the mixed-tone versions of the kiss emoji work.
How Do You Use This Emoji in Texting and on Social Media?
Use this emoji to express romantic love or to celebrate a couple, usually in messages between partners or in posts about a relationship.
In private messages, it works as a warm sign-off, a reply to something sweet, or a stand-in for a kiss when you cannot be together. In public posts, it is common on anniversaries, engagement announcements, wedding captions, and Valentine's Day messages.
Example messages
- Three years today and I would choose you again every time 🧑🏽❤️💋🧑🏾
- Goodnight, love. See you at the airport tomorrow 🧑🏽❤️💋🧑🏾
- Happy anniversary to the person who makes every ordinary day feel special 🧑🏽❤️💋🧑🏾
The emoji can stand alone as a reply, but it reads best with a short sentence. On its own, it can come across as a quick affectionate sign-off. With words, it feels more personal.
Who Is This Emoji Meant to Represent?
It is meant to represent any couple in which one partner has a medium skin tone and the other has a medium-dark skin tone.
The gender-neutral design is intentional. Older couple emojis defaulted to a man and a woman, and later sets added same-gender options. The person-and-person versions go a step further by not assigning a gender at all, which makes them useful for nonbinary people and for anyone who prefers not to specify.
If you want a tone combination that matches yours, the same kiss emoji exists in many other pairings. This page covers the medium and medium-dark pairing only. Choosing the combination that fits you and your partner is the whole point of the feature.
How Does This Emoji Look on Different Platforms?
The emoji appears on all major platforms that support Emoji 13.1, but each vendor draws the couple in its own style.
Support begins with 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+
On devices older than these versions, the emoji may not render as a single image. Instead, you might see two separate people, a heart, and a kiss mark side by side, because the system does not recognize the combined sequence. The message still arrives, but it looks less polished.
If you are not sure whether your friend or partner has a recent enough device, a short text note alongside the emoji helps. That way the meaning survives even if the image does not.
Which Emojis Pair Well With This One?
This emoji pairs well with heart symbols, celebration emojis, and other relationship emojis that strengthen the romantic tone.
- Hearts such as ❤️, 💕, or 💞 add warmth and emphasis.
- 🥂 or 🎉 suit anniversaries and engagements.
- 🌹 fits Valentine's Day and date night.
- 💍 works for engagement and wedding news.
- 😘 adds a playful, flirty edge.
Keep combinations simple. One or two supporting emojis make the message feel intentional, while a long string of them can dilute the sentiment.
If you are building a message from scratch and want help finding the right symbols, the Emoji Translator can turn a phrase into emojis. You can also check the trending emojis page to see what people are using right now.
When Should You Avoid This Emoji?
Avoid this emoji in professional, family-group, or public settings where a romantic kiss would feel out of place.
It is clearly romantic, so it does not suit work chats, messages to colleagues, or conversations with someone who is not your partner. Sending it by accident or as a joke can cause confusion, especially if the recipient might read it as genuine interest.
It is also worth thinking twice before using a specific skin tone pairing to describe other people. Picking this version to represent a couple you do not know, or using it as a label for a group, can feel presumptuous. The tones are best used for yourself and your own relationship, or for people who have shown they are comfortable being represented that way.
For lighter reactions in work or casual group chats, other emojis do the job better. A thumbs up signals approval, and eyes signal curiosity without any romantic implication.
How Do You Copy and Paste This Emoji?
You can copy this emoji with one click on this page and paste it anywhere that accepts text.
Click the copy button near the emoji at the top of the page, then paste it into your message, post, or document. Because it is a sequence of several characters, copying is more reliable than trying to type it, and it keeps all the parts, including both skin tones and the joiner characters, intact.
If it pastes as separate symbols instead of one image, your device or app likely does not support Emoji 13.1 yet. Updating your operating system or messaging app usually fixes this. Once it works, you can send it to the person it is meant for.
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