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A classic red love heart emoji.

The red heart ideograph&nbsp;is traditionally used for expressions of love and romance across many cultures, with this being amongst the most frequence use cases for this emoji.

However, the Red Heart emoji is also often used to express non-romantic positive sentiments, in part thanks to its use as one of the default reaction emoji options across many social messaging platforms (e.g. <a href="/instagram">Instagram</a>, <a href="/slack">Slack</a>, <a href="/whatsapp">WhatsApp</a>).

Additionally, as with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

This is historically&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">the most popular heart emoji</a>&nbsp;by a considerable distance and is amongst the most popular emojis of all time.&nbsp;

A similar&nbsp;emoji exists&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<a href="/heart-suit/" title="♥️️ Heart Suit">heart suit</a> in a deck of playing cards.

On <a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this emoji displays next to a friend&nbsp;when you have been #1 BFs with each other for two consecutive weeks.

Note: the Unicode Character Database (UCD)&nbsp;name &ldquo;Heavy Black Heart&rdquo;&nbsp;pre-dates color emoji, when the term referred to a solid, black ❤︎ heart character. See the glossary for information on the term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#black" title="📖 Glossary">black</a> in historic Unicode character names.

Heavy Black Heart

A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.

An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.

On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you message that&nbsp;person often but they aren&#39;t your&nbsp;#1 Best Friend.

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes

A yellow face with smiling eyes, a closed smile, rosy cheeks, and several <a href="/red-heart/">hearts</a> floating around its head. Expresses a range of happy, affectionate feelings, especially being in love. The placement of the hearts varies slightly by platform.

Apple&#39;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️ Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;emoji design.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Three Hearts

A yellow face with an open smile, sometimes showing teeth, and red, cartoon-styled hearts for eyes. Often conveys enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration, e.g., I love/am in love with this person or thing.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a>.

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Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

A yellow face winking with puckered lips blowing a kiss, depicted&nbsp;as a small, <a href="/red-heart/">red heart</a>. May represent&nbsp;a kiss goodbye or good night and convey feelings of love and affection more generally.&nbsp;

Many platforms feature the same eyes as on their <a href="/winking-face/">😉&nbsp;Winking Face</a>.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/face-blowing-a-kiss/">previously featured</a> a feminine smiley with long eyelashes and red <a href="/lipstick/">lipstick</a>, which could leave a <a href="/kiss-mark/">kiss mark</a>.

Face Throwing a Kiss

A yellow face with smiling eyes, rosy cheeks, and puckered lips giving a kiss. Commonly conveys sentiments of romantic love and affection. Several platforms, including Apple, feature the same eyes and cheeks as their <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️&nbsp;Smiling Face</a>.

With its closed eyes, features an expression more intimate than <a href="/kissing-face-with-smiling-eyes/">😙&nbsp;Kissing Face With Smiling Eyes</a>&rsquo;s and <a href="/kissing-face/">😗&nbsp;Kissing Face</a>&rsquo;s.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/kissing-cat/">😽&nbsp;Kissing Cat Face</a>.

Kissing Face with Closed Eyes

A yellow face smiling with <a href="/open-hands/">open hands</a>, as if giving a hug.&nbsp;May be used to offer thanks and support, show love and care, or express warm, positive feelings more generally.

Due to its hand gesture, often used to represent jazz hands, indicating such feelings as excitement, enthusiasm, or a sense of flourish or accomplishment.

Joins <a href="/thinking-face/">🤔&nbsp;Thinking Face</a>, <a href="/shushing-face/">🤫&nbsp;Shushing Face</a>, and <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face With Hand Over Mouth</a> as one of the few smileys featuring hands. For a more obvious hug, see&nbsp;<a href="/people-hugging/">🫂 People Hugging</a>&nbsp;(new in 2020).

Hugging Face

A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/smiling-face-with-heart-eyes/">😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.

Smiling Cat Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

A heart emoji with an arrow through the center, like the arrow that cupid shoots for love.

This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.

Heart with Arrow

A heart-shaped box, tied with a <a href="/ribbon/" title="🎀 Ribbon">ribbon</a>. May be a gift box, box of chocolates, or a jewellery box.

Heart with Ribbon

A pink love heart with stars around it, making it look like it is sparkling or shimmering.

This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.

Sparkling Heart

A pink heart, inside a slightly larger pink heart, inside a larger-again pink heart. Intended to give the impression of a heart increasing in size.

This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.

An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/growing-heart/">early Apple design</a> displayed as a plain <a href="/pink-heart/">Pink Heart</a>.

Growing Heart

A heart with vibration/movement lines above it or around it, indicating it is beating. Displayed in pink or red on most platforms.

An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/beating-heart/">early version</a> of this emoji on iOS had the same design as&nbsp;<a href="/sparkling-heart/">💖 Sparkling Heart</a>.

Beating Heart

Hearts revolving around one or more other hearts. This emoji was originally animated on a number of Japanese devices.

Apple&rsquo;s artwork for this emoji shows&nbsp;two hearts switching places, with a circular line simulating&nbsp;the&nbsp;action this would make.&nbsp;Google&rsquo;s artwork previously displayed <a href="/google/android-5.0/revolving-hearts/">five hearts in a circle-like shape</a>.

Revolving Hearts

Two pink love hearts. One larger than the other. Can be used to display that &ldquo;love is in the air&rdquo;.

This emoji tends to spike in popularity on <a href="/valentines-day">Valentine&#39;s Day</a>.

On <a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji Meanings">Snapchat</a>, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you have been #1 BFs with each other for two consecutive months.&nbsp;A bug in October 2019 has a <a href="https://trophylist.com/2019/10/07/snapchat-bug-shows-yellow-heart-💛-instead-of-pink-hearts-💕/">yellow heart emoji showing instead of&nbsp;💕 for some Snapchat users</a>.

Two Hearts

A decorative heart that generally displays as a white heart-shaped cutout in a pink or purple roundrect.

Google <a href="/google/android-7.0/heart-decoration/">previously</a> displayed a pink heart with yellow dots around it, Samsung&rsquo;s was a <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/heart-decoration/">pink patterned heart</a>, and Microsoft&rsquo;s had corner&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/heart-decoration/">stitches</a>.

Heart Decoration

A decorative&nbsp;<a href="/exclamation-mark/" title=" ❗ Heavy Exclamation Mark Symbol">exclamation mark</a>, where a heart forms the top part of the symbol, and a circle the lower part. Similar to the way to the <a href="/person-in-suit-levitating/" title=" 🕴 Man in Business Suit Levitating">man in business suit levitating</a>&nbsp;also creates a similar shape.

Heavy Heart Exclamation Mark Ornament

A heart shown on fire, for extreme or passionate forms of love or lust. Most representative of&nbsp;desire or lust, this emoji&nbsp;may also indicate&nbsp;a sense of burning a past love and moving on.

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Heart on Fire

A heart shown with a bandage across one side; the opposite of a <a href="/broken-heart/">broken heart</a>. May be used to indicate&nbsp;the process of healing,&nbsp;recovery, or to express sympathy for someone going through a difficult time.

Mending Heart

A plain pink heart, expected to be&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">frequently used alongside other hearts</a>. Used to represent love, friendship, and feelings of warmth, and the color pink.

For many years before its introduction in <a href="/emoji-15.0">2022</a>, the plain pink heart was one of the world&#39;s <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/top-emoji-requests-2016/">most frequently requested</a> emojis.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

On several platforms, pink hearts are used in the design of other emojis. These emoji include: <a href="/sparkling-heart/">Sparkling Heart 💖</a>, <a href="/two-hearts/">Two Hearts 💕</a>, <a href="/growing-heart/">Growing Heart 💗</a>, <a href="/beating-heart/">Beating Heart 💓</a>, <a href="/revolving-hearts/">Revolving Heart 💞</a>, <a href="/heart-with-arrow/">Heart with Arrow 💘</a>, <a href="/heart-with-ribbon/">Heart with Ribbon 💝</a>, and <a href="/kiss/">Kiss 💏</a>.

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Pink Heart

An orange heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

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Orange Heart

A yellow or gold colored heart,&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">frequently used alongside other colored hearts</a>.&nbsp;

Amusingly, this emoji displayed as a pink <a href="/google/android-4.4/yellow-heart/" title="💛 Yellow Heart on Google Android 4.4">hairy heart</a>&nbsp;on Android 4.4. It has been suggested that this visual oddity was created following a&nbsp;misinterpretation of Unicode&#39;s black-and-white reference images.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

On&nbsp;<a href="/snapchat/" title="👻 Snapchat Emoji &amp; Emoticon Meanings">Snapchat</a>,&nbsp;this&nbsp;emoji next to a contact&nbsp;denotes a person that you snap the most, and who also snaps you the most (#1 best friend). The yellow #1 BF heart turns into a <a href="/red-heart/" title="❤️ Heavy Black Heart">red heart</a> after two weeks.

Yellow Heart

A green heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color. For example, this emoji is frequently used on Twitter/X in reference to the Korean boy band&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCT_(group)">NCT</a>.

Shown with&nbsp;beads of sweat on an orange and pink heart <a href="/google/android-4.4/green-heart/">in previous versions of Android</a>.

Green Heart

A blue heart emoji, commonly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">used by brands</a> as a neutral heart color.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

Can also be used to discuss&nbsp;someone passing away, though this use case is more explicitly associated with the&nbsp;<a href="/white-heart">🤍&nbsp;White Heart</a>.

An <a href="/google/android-4.4/blue-heart/">early Google design</a> of this emoji depicted the heart&nbsp;as if it were made out of <a href="/gem-stone/">gemstone</a>.

Blue Heart

A light blue heart, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">frequently used alongside other hearts</a>.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

Light Blue Heart

A purple heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color. For example, this emoji is frequently used on Twitter/X in reference to the Korean boy band&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS">Bangtan Sonyeondan</a>, more commonly known as BTS.

Previously shown <a href="/google/android-4.4/purple-heart/">as&nbsp;a pink heart in Android 4.4</a>.

Purple Heart

A brown heart emoji.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color. For example, this emoji has been found to often be used to discuss topics related to <a href="/black-lives-matter">racial identity</a>.

As of &nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">February 2021</a>, this emoji was the &nbsp;least used of the nine colored hearts that existed at that time (the others being&nbsp;<a href="/red-heart/">❤️</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/orange-heart/">🧡</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/yellow-heart/">💛</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/green-heart/">💚</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/blue-heart/">💙</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/purple-heart/">💜</a>,<a href="/black-heart/">🖤</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/white-heart/">🤍</a>).

Brown Heart

A heart shaded completely black. May be used to express morbidity, sorrow, or a form of dark humor, but despite the color remains <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">most commonly used for love and affection</a>.

Additionally, as with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

Black Heart

A grey heart emoji.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji is often also used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

Grey Heart

A white heart emoji, used for love and affection. Also commonly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">used to discuss&nbsp;someone passing away</a>.

As with the other color-based hearts, this emoji can also often used to express an affinity with or appreciation for various people, places, groups, objects, or ideas associated with the same color.

An alternative character known as <a href="/white-heart-suit/">White Heart Suit</a>&nbsp;is also available, but not intended to have an emoji appearance.

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White Heart

Two hands forming a heart shape. Used to express love and support.

This emoji currently showns the heart being made through two hands being curved into a C-shape with their thumbs touching. This is stereotypically referred to as the &quot;Millennial Hand Heart&quot;.

Heart Hands

A red anatomical heart, shown with blue or purple veins on some platforms.

Sometimes used interchangeably with <a href="/red-heart/">❤️ Red Heart</a>.

Anatomical Heart

A couple standing next to each other, smiling, with a love heart floating in the air between them. No gender is specified for the two people, and as such this may be used to represent the concept of a couple broadly, and/or as a means of showing two non-binary people.

Previously shown with the same appearance as&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart-woman-man/">👩&zwj;❤️&zwj;👨 Couple With Heart: Woman, Man</a>, but now displays&nbsp;two people with an ambiguous gender&nbsp;appearance.

Couple with Heart

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