The 👩🏿❤️💋👩🏾 Kiss: Woman, Woman, Dark Skin Tone, Medium-dark Skin Tone emoji means two women sharing a kiss, one with a dark skin tone and one with a medium-dark skin tone. It represents romance, affection, and love between women, and it lets couples show their real skin tones in a single character.
What Does the Kiss: Woman, Woman, Dark Skin Tone, Medium-dark Skin Tone Emoji Mean?
This emoji depicts a romantic kiss between two women, with the first woman shown in a dark skin tone and the second in a medium-dark skin tone.
It belongs to the family of couple emojis that include a red heart and a kiss mark between the two people. That combination of a heart and a lip print is what tells the reader this is a romantic kiss and not a simple greeting or a friendly hug.
Most people use it to talk about love, dating, anniversaries, and affection between women. It is especially meaningful for sapphic, lesbian, and bisexual users who want an emoji that mirrors their own relationship and their own skin tones.
The emoji is part of the People & Body emoji category, which holds people, gestures, families, and couples. Within that group, it is one of many tone-specific versions of the kiss couple.
How Is This Emoji Built, and What Are Its Technical Details?
The emoji is a sequence of ten Unicode codepoints joined together, not a single character, and it was added in Unicode 13.1 and Emoji 13.1.
The sequence runs: U+1F469 (woman), U+1F3FF (dark skin tone modifier), U+200D (zero width joiner), U+2764 (heavy black heart), U+FE0F (emoji variation selector), U+200D, U+1F48B (kiss mark), U+200D, U+1F469 (woman), and U+1F3FE (medium-dark skin tone modifier).
The zero width joiner, often shortened to ZWJ, is the invisible character that glues the parts together. A device that understands the whole sequence draws one image of two women kissing. A device that does not understand it shows the pieces separately.
The shortcode for this emoji is :kiss_woman_woman_dark_skin_tone_medium_dark_skin_tone:. The dataset notes that this version does not offer a further skin tone picker, because both tones are already baked into the sequence.
Why does the Unicode version matter?
Version 13.1 arrived with a big expansion of multi-tone couple emojis. Before that, the kissing couple could usually be sent only in the default yellow style or with one tone applied to both people. Mixed-tone options let two people show two different skin tones in one emoji.
How Do You Use This Emoji in Texting and on Social Media?
Use it whenever you want to express romantic love or affection between two women, whether you are talking about your own relationship or celebrating someone else's.
Common situations include anniversary posts, Valentine's Day messages, wedding or engagement announcements, couple selfies, and good-morning or goodnight messages to a partner. Because it shows a specific pair of skin tones, many couples choose it as a small way to say, "this is us."
Here are a few realistic ways it shows up:
- Three years with my favorite person 👩🏿❤️💋👩🏾 happy anniversary, babe.
- Date night done right. Dinner, dessert, and you 👩🏿❤️💋👩🏾
- Counting down to our wedding day 👩🏿❤️💋👩🏾 six more weeks!
It also works for pride content, profile bios, and captions that celebrate queer love. If you are looking for a more neutral version, the default Kiss: Woman, Woman emoji shows the same scene without specific skin tones.
Why Do Skin Tone Combinations Matter for Couple Emojis?
Mixed skin tone couple emojis matter because they let people see their own relationships reflected accurately, instead of forcing both partners into one default appearance.
For couples whose skin tones differ, a single-tone kiss emoji never quite fits. A combination like dark and medium-dark lets each person be represented as they are. That small detail is often why people hunt for the exact version rather than settling for a generic one.
The same idea applies when you send the emoji to friends or family. Picking the matching tones signals care and attention, much like choosing the right photo for a card. If your tones are different from these, you can browse the People & Body category to find the combination that matches yours.
How Does the Emoji Look on Different Platforms?
Each platform draws its own artwork for this sequence, so the faces, hair, and pose vary, but the meaning stays the same on every device that supports it.
Support depends on the operating system and app version. According to the data for this emoji:
- Apple: iOS 14.5+ and macOS 11.3+
- Google: Android 12.0+
- Microsoft: Windows 11+
- Samsung: One UI 4.0+
- WhatsApp: version 2.21.16+
- Twitter: Twemoji 13.1+
If a friend's phone is older than these versions, they may not see one clean image. Instead they might see two women, a heart, and a kiss mark shown side by side, or a blank box. The message is still readable that way, but it loses the single-picture effect.
Skin tone shades can look slightly lighter or darker from brand to brand because each vendor uses its own color palette. The dark and medium-dark labels describe the Unicode modifiers, not an exact color value.
Which Emojis Pair Well With This One?
The best pairings add warmth, celebration, or playfulness without changing the romantic tone.
- ❤️ or 💕 to amplify the love.
- 🌈 for pride-themed posts.
- 🥰 or 😍 for affectionate reactions.
- 💍 for engagement and wedding news.
- 🌹 for date nights and Valentine's messages.
When a couple shares big news, friends often reply with an emoji of their own. A quick thumbs up works for casual approval, while the eyes emoji is a playful way to say "tell me more" under a couple photo.
If you want to build a longer message out of emojis, the Emoji Translator tool can turn plain text into emoji, which is handy for captions and cards.
When Should You Avoid This Emoji?
Avoid it in professional or formal messages, and anywhere a romantic or physical gesture would feel out of place.
It is an intimate emoji, so it fits best with partners, close friends celebrating a couple, and public posts about your own relationship. Sending it to a coworker, a client, or someone you barely know can come across as unwelcome.
It is also best not to use it to describe or tag other people's relationships without their permission, since not everyone is public about who they date. Used respectfully, it is a warm and affirming symbol. Used carelessly, it can feel like an intrusion.
Is it only for couples?
Mostly, yes. The kiss and heart combination reads as romantic, so it is not the right choice for platonic friends. For friendship, a hug or a heart is clearer and avoids confusion.
How Do You Find Similar or Related Emojis?
Start with the default version of this couple and move outward through the category pages.
The standard Kiss: Woman, Woman emoji shows the same pair without custom tones, and the rest of the family covers other combinations of skin tones. To explore what people are using right now, the trending emojis page shows popular picks across the site.
If you want to react to a post instead of posting a couple, other emojis like a woman shrugging or a woman facepalming cover shrugs and groans in the same people-focused style.
How Do You Copy and Paste This Emoji?
You can copy 👩🏿❤️💋👩🏾 with one click on this page and paste it anywhere that accepts emoji.
Click the copy button near the emoji at the top of the page, then paste it into your message, caption, bio, or document using Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on Mac, or by long-pressing in a text field on your phone and choosing Paste.
Because the emoji is a ten-part sequence, it is best to paste it as a whole. If part of it is cut off, the emoji may break into pieces, such as two women with a heart between them. Copying with the button on this page keeps the full sequence intact, so it shows up as a single image on supported devices.
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