People & Body · Emoji 0.6
💏Kiss Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the 💏 emoji, they’re expressing romantic interest or wanting to show they're thinking about you in a loving way. It’s a quick way to say you’re feeling the connection.
The 💏 emoji shows a couple kissing.
- Unicode
- U+1F48F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :couplekiss:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 💏 Kiss emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 14.
02 — Platforms
Kiss emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the kiss has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Kiss emoji skin tones
💏 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Kiss emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :couplekiss:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F48F.
05 — How to type
How to type the 💏 Kiss emoji
No picker to hand? The kiss can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Kiss emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the kiss as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
07 — Combinations
Kiss emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around kiss for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 💏 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 💏 means in other countries
Reads as light romantic affection in most casual Western chat, but public-affection imagery is generally avoided in more conservative or professional settings.
Common, low-key way to signal romantic affection between partners.
Public affection imagery is typically kept out of formal or mixed-gender chat.
Sometimes used as a flirtation signal between crushes.
Before you send it: Great for private romantic chat; skip it in work threads or group messages.
10 — Apps
What 💏 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
💏 vs 👩❤️💋👩 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Kiss
Code: U+1F48F · added 2010
Shortcode: :couplekiss:
Generally, when someone sends you the 💏 emoji, they’re expressing romantic interest or wanting to show they're thinking about you in a loving way.
Unicode name: Kiss Woman, Woman
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F48B U+200D U+1F469 · added 2015
Shortcode: :woman-kiss-woman:
Generally, it means the sender is expressing support or admiration for a lesbian relationship or romantic connection between women.
13 — History
Where the 💏 Kiss emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F48F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💏 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6F9, KDDI au E5CA, SoftBank E111.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Kiss was approved as U+1F48F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💏 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ