The Kiss: Woman, Woman, Medium-dark Skin Tone, Light Skin Tone emoji (👩🏾❤️💋👩🏻) shows two women kissing, one with a medium-dark skin tone and one with a light skin tone. It stands for romantic love, affection, and intimacy between women, and it lets couples depict their own skin tones when sharing their relationship.
What Does the Kiss: Woman, Woman, Medium-dark Skin Tone, Light Skin Tone Emoji Mean?
This emoji means romantic affection between two women, shown through a kiss, with each partner drawn in a specific skin tone.
The image is built from two women facing each other, a heart and a kiss mark between them in the underlying sequence, and two distinct skin tones. The left figure carries a medium-dark skin tone and the right figure a light skin tone. That pairing is deliberate: it gives interracial and mixed-tone couples a way to see themselves in an emoji rather than settling for a default yellow couple.
Because the emoji is explicitly about two women, it is widely used to represent lesbian and bisexual relationships, wlw (women loving women) romance, and celebrations of queer love. It can also be used by friends or family in playful, affectionate contexts, though most people read it as romantic.
Quick facts about this emoji
- Category: People & Body
- Unicode version: 13.1 (also Emoji 13.1)
- Codepoints: U+1F469, U+1F3FE, U+200D, U+2764, U+FE0F, U+200D, U+1F48B, U+200D, U+1F469, U+1F3FB
- Shortcode: :kiss_woman_woman_medium_dark_skin_tone_light_skin_tone:
Why Does This Emoji Have Two Different Skin Tones?
It has two skin tones because Unicode 13.1 added individual skin tone selection for each person in couple emojis, so partners no longer have to share one tone.
Before version 13.1, couple and kiss emojis with skin tones were limited, and many people could only choose a single tone for both partners or fall back to the default. The update made it possible to combine any two tones in the same emoji. This particular version pairs medium-dark with light, and it is one of many combinations in the same family.
That matters for representation. Plenty of couples are made up of people with different skin tones, and being able to pick the exact pairing makes the emoji feel personal. If you want the neutral default instead, the standard Kiss: Woman, Woman emoji is available without skin tone modifiers.
How Do You Use This Emoji in Texting and on Social Media?
You use it to express romantic love, to celebrate a relationship, or to mark an anniversary, a date, or a sweet moment with a partner.
In private messages, it works as a warm, affectionate sign-off or a reaction to romantic news. On social media, it often appears in captions on couple photos, in bios to signal a relationship, and in pride-related posts. Many users place it next to a partner's name or handle as a small public declaration of love.
Here are a few realistic examples:
- Two years today and I would choose you all over again 👩🏾❤️💋👩🏻
- Date night with my favorite person 👩🏾❤️💋👩🏻✨
- Happy anniversary to my wife, you make every day softer 👩🏾❤️💋👩🏻
Using it as a relationship signal
Putting this emoji in a bio or beside a partner's name tells followers you are in a relationship without needing a longer explanation. Because the skin tones are specific, it can also quietly signal that the relationship is interracial or between partners of different backgrounds.
What Does This Emoji Mean in LGBTQ+ Contexts?
In LGBTQ+ contexts, it affirms and celebrates love between women, and it is commonly used during Pride Month and in queer community spaces.
The emoji does not need explanation in these settings. It reads as visibility: two women, openly affectionate, depicted with a diversity of skin tones. People use it to share wedding news, coming-out posts, couple milestones, and support for friends who are celebrating their relationships.
It is also used in the broader conversation about intersectional representation. Many queer women of color have long pointed out that default emoji did not reflect their lives, and skin tone options for couple emojis are one small step toward changing that. Used thoughtfully, the emoji says that both the relationship and the identities within it are worth showing.
How Does the Emoji Look on Different Platforms?
It looks slightly different on each platform because every vendor draws its own artwork, but the structure is the same: two women kissing, with the specified skin tones.
Support depends on the operating system and app version, since this emoji was introduced in Emoji 13.1. Based on the supported platform data:
- Apple: iOS 14.5 or later and macOS 11.3 or later
- Google: Android 12.0 or later
- Microsoft: Windows 11 or later
- Samsung: One UI 4.0 or later
- WhatsApp: version 2.21.16 or later
- Twitter: Twemoji 13.1 or later
If your device is older than these versions, the emoji may not appear as a single image. Instead, you might see separate pieces, such as two women, a heart, and a kiss mark side by side, because the system does not recognize the combined sequence. Updating your operating system or messaging app usually fixes this.
Why it is a sequence of several characters
This emoji is a ZWJ (zero width joiner) sequence. The codepoint list shows a woman, a skin tone modifier, a joiner, a heart, a variation selector, a kiss mark, another joiner, and a second woman with her own skin tone modifier. Supporting platforms merge those pieces into one picture, while unsupported ones display them separately.
Which Emojis Pair Well With This One?
The best pairings add warmth, sparkle, or context, such as hearts, rings, flowers, and celebration symbols.
Because the emoji already carries a clear romantic message, extra emojis usually work as decoration or emphasis. Common combinations include:
- ❤️ or 💞 for extra affection
- 💍 for engagements and weddings
- 🌈 for pride and celebration
- 🥰 for a soft, adoring tone
- 🌹 or 💐 for romantic gestures
If you are reacting to a friend's romantic post, a simple eyes emoji can add playful curiosity, while a thumbs up works as a quick, low-key show of support. To see what other people are reaching for right now, check the trending emojis page.
When Should You Avoid This Emoji?
Avoid it in formal, professional, or unfamiliar settings where a romantic image would feel out of place or presumptuous.
It is a clearly intimate emoji, so it does not belong in work emails, client messages, or group chats where you do not know people well. Using it to describe someone else's relationship without their permission can also feel intrusive, especially if they have not publicly shared that information.
Be thoughtful about sensitivity as well. In some regions and communities, same-sex affection can raise safety concerns for the people involved. If you are unsure whether it is safe or welcome, a private message is a better place for it than a public post. And if you are not sure which skin tone combination fits a couple, ask them or choose the default Kiss: Woman, Woman emoji instead of guessing.
How Do You Copy and Paste the Emoji?
You can copy it with one click on this page and paste it anywhere that accepts text, including messages, social posts, bios, and documents.
Click the emoji or the copy button above, then paste it with Ctrl+V on Windows, Cmd+V on Mac, or by long-pressing in a text field on your phone and choosing Paste. Because it is a multi-part sequence, always copy it as a whole rather than typing the pieces yourself, which keeps the skin tones and the kiss intact.
If you would rather build a message full of emojis, try the Emoji Translator to turn plain text into emoji. For more people and relationship emojis, browse the full People & Body category. Copy 👩🏾❤️💋👩🏻 now and share it wherever you want to show a little love.
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