<p>A classic red love heart emoji, used for expressions of love and romance.&nbsp;This is&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">the most popular heart emoji</a>&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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p><em>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 Unicode character names.</em></p>

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Heavy Black Heart

<p>Two hands forming a heart shape. Used to express love and support.</p>

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Heart Hands

<p>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.</p>

<p>Apple&#39;s design features the same expression as its <a href="/smiling-face/">☺️ Smiling Face</a>&nbsp;emoji design.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Three Hearts

<p>Two pink love hearts. One larger than the other. Can be used to display that &ldquo;love is in the air&rdquo;.</p>

<p>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;<em>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>.</em></p>

Two Hearts

<p>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>I love/am in love with this person or thing.</i></p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/smiling-cat-with-heart-eyes/">😻 Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes</a>.</p>

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Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

<p>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.</p>

<p>On several platforms, pink hearts are used in the design of other emojis. These emoji include: <a href="https://emojipedia.org/sparkling-heart/">Sparkling Heart 💖</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/two-hearts/">Two Hearts 💕</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/growing-heart/">Growing Heart 💗</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/beating-heart/">Beating Heart 💓</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/revolving-hearts/">Revolving Heart 💞</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/heart-with-arrow/">Heart with Arrow 💘</a>, <a href="https://emojipedia.org/heart-with-ribbon/">Heart with Ribbon 💝</a>, and <a href="https://emojipedia.org/kiss/">Kiss 💏</a>.</p>

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Pink Heart

<p>A green heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>. Frequently used on Twitter&nbsp;in reference to Korean boy band&nbsp;<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCT_(group)">NCT</a>.</em></p>

<p>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>.</p>

Green Heart

<p>An orange heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>.</p>

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Orange Heart

<p>A purple heart emoji, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">often used alongside other colored hearts</a>. Frequently used on Twitter&nbsp;in reference to Korean boy band&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS"><em>Bangtan Sonyeondan</em></a>, more commonly known as BTS.</p>

<p>Previously shown <a href="/google/android-4.4/purple-heart/">as&nbsp;a pink heart in Android 4.4</a>.</p>

Purple Heart

<p>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>.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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White Heart

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

Anatomical Heart

<p>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.</p>

Heart with Ribbon

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

Smiling Cat Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes

<p>Hearts revolving around one or more other hearts. This emoji was originally animated on a number of Japanese devices.</p>

<p>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>.</p>

Revolving Hearts

<p>A decorative heart that generally displays as a white heart-shaped cutout in a pink or purple roundrect.</p>

<p>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>.</p>

Heart Decoration

<p>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.</p>

Heavy Heart Exclamation Mark Ornament

<p>A light blue heart, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">frequently used alongside other hearts</a>. Used to represent love, friendship, feelings of warmth, and the color blue.</p>

Light Blue Heart

<p>A brown heart, often used&nbsp;discuss topics related to racial identity 🧑🏽🧑🏾🧑🏿</p>

<p>The least used of the nine colored hearts (❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎).</p>

Brown Heart

<p>A grey heart, <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">frequently used alongside other hearts</a>. Used to represent love, friendship, feelings of warmth, and the color grey.</p>

Grey Heart

<p>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>.</p>

Black Heart

<p>A heart emoji with an arrow through the center, like the arrow that cupid shoots for love.</p>

Heart with Arrow

<p>A heart with vibration/movement lines above it or around it, indicating it is beating. Displayed in pink or red on most platforms.</p>

<p>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>.</p>

Beating Heart

<p>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.</p>

Mending Heart

<p>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.</p>

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Heart on Fire

<p>A pink love heart with stars around it, making it look like it is sparkling or shimmering.</p>

Sparkling Heart

<p>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.</p>

<p>An <a href="/apple/ios-4.0/growing-heart/">early Apple design</a> displayed as a plain <a href="/pink-heart/">Pink Heart</a>.</p>

Growing Heart

<p>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.</p>

<p>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>.</p>

Blue Heart

<p>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;This 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.</p>

<p>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 (<em>#1 best friend</em>). The yellow <em>#1 BF heart</em> turns into a <a href="/red-heart/" title="❤️ Heavy Black Heart">red heart</a> after two weeks.</p>

Yellow Heart

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<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

Couple with Heart

Couples With Hearts

Kisses

<p>A kissing gesture, shown&nbsp;with a pink love heart floating in the air between two people.&nbsp;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.</p>

<p>Previously shown with the same appearance as&nbsp;<a href="/kiss-woman-man/">👩&zwj;❤️&zwj;💋&zwj;👨&nbsp;Kiss: Woman, Man</a>, but now displays&nbsp;two people with an ambiguous gender&nbsp;appearance.</p>

Kiss

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<p>Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.</p>

Apple

<p>Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.</p>

Google Noto Color Emoji

<p>Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.</p>

Samsung

<p>Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.</p>

Microsoft 3D Fluent

<p>Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.</p>

Microsoft

<p>Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.</p>

WhatsApp

<p>Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.</p>

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Twitter / X

<p>Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.</p>

Facebook

<p>Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.</p>

Huawei

<p>Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.</p>

<p>Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.</p>

Telegram

<p>Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.</p>

Noto Color Emoji, Animated

<p>3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.</p>

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

<p>Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.</p>

Skype

<p>Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.</p>

Twitter Emoji Stickers

<p>A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.</p>

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JoyPixels

<p>A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.</p>

Toss Face (토스페이스)

<p>Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.</p>

Sony Playstation

<p>A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.</p>

Noto Emoji Font

<p>A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.</p>

OpenMoji

<p>A licensable emoji design set.</p>

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Icons8

<p>An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.</p>

emojidex

<p>Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.</p>

Messenger

<p>Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

<p>Japanese mobile phone carrier that created the earliest emoji set currently on record. Discontinued in 2016 following 2014 update, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

SoftBank

<p>Japanese mobile phone carrier responsible for the most famous early emoji set from 1999. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

Docomo

<p>Japanese mobile manufacturer with its own early emoji designs. Discontinued in 2013, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.</p>

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<p>Open-source emoji set designs for 2015&rsquo;s Firefox OS 2.5 update, but never implemented.</p>

Mozilla

<p>Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.</p>

<p>The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.</p>

<p>Released 2023-08-22, JoyPixels 8.0 was the first release from the company to support <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0">Emoji 15.0</a>.</p>

<p>Released on World Emoji Day,&nbsp;JoyPixels 7.0 introduces support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0 </a>within the&nbsp;freemium emoji set.</p>

<p>This update also revised a significant number of emoji designs, as has come to be expected from a JoyPixels release.</p>

<p>Released 2021-07-08,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.6 updated hundreds of emoji designs, including the syringe emoji which had its contents and two blood drops removed. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-6-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.</p>

<p>Released 2021-01-27,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.5&nbsp;was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a></p>

<p>Released 2020-06-23,&nbsp;JoyPixels 6.0&nbsp;was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-6-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a></p>

<p>Released 2020-01-29, JoyPixels 5.5 was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-5-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.</p>

<p>Released 2019-06-20, JoyPixels 5.0 (previously known as EmojiOne) was the first release from the company to support <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>. A large number of emoji designs were also <a href="/joypixels/5.0/changed/">modified</a> in this release. More about this <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/joypixels-5-0-emoji-changelog/">update</a>.</p>

<p>A minor update which modifyied&nbsp;a number of existing emoji designs. No new emojis were added in this release. This follows <a href="/joypixels/4.0/">EmojiOne 4.0</a> from 2018, which added <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a> support for the first time. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojione-4-5-changelog/">More about this update</a>.</p>

<p>Released as EmojiOne 4.5 and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 4.5. The last release to use the EmojiOne branding.</p>

<p>Released on 2018-08-21 and the first release from EmojiOne to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. This was the first release to be branded as <em>JoyPixels</em>&nbsp;for consumer goods licensing, while remaining <em>EmojiOne</em> for digital licenses. The majority of designs were updated with a new style in this release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojione-4-0-changelog/">More about this update</a>.</p>

<p>Released as EmojiOne 4.0&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 4.0.</p>

<p>EmojiOne 3.1 added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a>, and made tweaks and changes to a number of other emojis.</p>

<p>Released as EmojiOne 3.1&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 3.1.</p>

<p>Version 3.0 of EmojiOne included a complete redesign of every emoji, new licensing terms, and support for&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a>&nbsp;additions. This update was released on April 20, 2017.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-one-goes-premium/">Learn more about this release</a>.</p>

<p>Released as EmojiOne 3.0&nbsp;and retroactively&nbsp;renamed JoyPixels 3.0.</p>

<p>This release added&nbsp;support for the <a href="/rainbow-flag/" title="🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag">rainbow flag emoji</a>. The last completely free and open source release of this set, which <a href="https://github.com/EmojiTwo/EmojiOne-archive">remains archived</a>&nbsp;under its original name.</p>

<p>Released as EmojiOne 2.2.5.</p>

2.2.5

<p>The first release of EmojiOne to include support for emojis from <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9.0</a>. View <a href="http://emojione.com/releases/2.2.4/">details</a>.</p>

<p>Released as EmojiOne 2.2.4.</p>

2.2.4

<p>Changes in Emoji One 2.2 include redesigns and tweaks of&nbsp;624 emoji images. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-one-releases-big-spring-update/">Overview</a>&nbsp;or see <a href="http://emojione.com/releases/2.2.0">more details</a>.</p>

<p>Changes to the appearance of 225 emojis. <a href="http://emojione.com/releases/2.1.0/">More details</a>.</p>

<p>Released as EmojiOne 2.1.</p>

<p>Emoji One 2.0 &mdash; referred to upon&nbsp;launch as&nbsp;<em>The 2016 Collection</em>&nbsp;&mdash; was a major update to <a href="/joypixels/1.0/">version 1.0</a>, and added support for <a href="/emoji-modifier-sequence/">emoji modifiers</a>, <a href="/zero-width-joiner/">ZWJ</a> sequences, and the latest emojis from Unicode 8.0.</p>

<p><a href="/nintendo/">Nintendo Switch</a> uses emojis from EmojiOne 2.0.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-one-launches-2016-collection/">More about this update</a>.</p>

<p>The first release of EmojiOne, branded as &quot;Emoji One&quot; at the time, and later rebranded under the name &quot;JoyPixels&quot;.</p>

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