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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

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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 love&nbsp;heart, broken in two. This emoji represents the aching one feels when they are missing the&nbsp;person they love.

Broken Heart

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 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 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.

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

Two hands placed firmly together, meaning please&nbsp;or&nbsp;thank you&nbsp;in Japanese culture.&nbsp;A common alternative use&nbsp;for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as&nbsp;praying hands. It can also represent&nbsp;a respectful greeting or show of adoration many in Southeast Asian religions and cultures, such as the Hindu namaste or Buddhist a&ntilde;jali mudra.

Rarely used as&nbsp;a&nbsp;high-five, despite often being suggested as one by emoji keyboard search features. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-folded-hands/">More about this emoji and its possible meanings</a>.

A previous&nbsp;version of this&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;displayed a <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Apple iOS 6.0">yellow burst of light behind the two hands</a>&nbsp;on iOS. Android once&nbsp;showed a blob-character with <a href="/google/android-5.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Google Android 5.0">closed eyes and folded hands</a>.

Person with Folded Hands

A person dressed for a formal occasion, wearing a tuxedo. No gender is specified for this emoji. See also <a href="/woman-in-tuxedo/">Woman in Tuxedo</a> and <a href="/man-in-tuxedo/">Man in Tuxedo</a>.

Man in Tuxedo

A man dressed for a formal occasion, wearing a tuxedo.

A woman dressed for a formal occasion, wearing a tuxedo.

Woman in Tuxedo

A person in traditional western <a href="/wedding-marriage/" title="👰 Wedding / Marriage">wedding</a> dress with a veil over their head.

Bride with Veil

A man wearing a traditional Western wedding dress with a veil over their head.

Man with Veil

A woman wearing a traditional western&nbsp;<a href="/wedding-marriage/" title="👰 Wedding / Marriage">wedding</a>&nbsp;dress with a veil over their head.

Woman with Veil

A dove carrying an olive branch, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doves_as_symbols">symbol</a> of <a href="/peace-symbol/">peace</a> in Western and Judeo-Christian culture. Depicted as a white bird in full profile facing left, flying as it holds a green sprig in its beak.

Commonly used to represent such sentiments as peace, love, hope, and reconciliation.

Microsoft&rsquo;s dove was previously flying right, without an olive branch.

Dove of Peace

A red rose. Depicted as a single, vertical red rose on a green stem.

Commonly used for <a href="/valentines-day/">Valentine&rsquo;s Day</a>, <a href="/mothers-day/">Mother&rsquo;s Day</a>, and other special occasions. May be more generally used to express such sentiments as love and romance. Also used as a symbol of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_(symbolism)#Socialism_and_social_democracy">socialism</a>&nbsp;or as a red accent color.

Not to be confused with <a href="/tulip/">🌷 Tulip</a>, though their applications may overlap.

Samsung&rsquo;s rose was <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/rose/">previously</a> pink.

Rose

An emoji to depict a wedding, displayed by most vendors as a Christian <a href="/church/">church</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/search/?q=heart">love hearts</a>. Some platforms display&nbsp;a <a href="/latin-cross/">cross</a> or <a href="/bell/">bell</a> on the building.

Wedding

A present or gift in a box tied with a bow, as given on a <a href="/birthday/">birthday</a> or <a href="/christmas/">Christmas</a>. Box and ribbon color vary across platforms, but commonly depicted as a gold box with a lid wrapped with a red ribbon.

Commonly used to represent gifts and presents on various holidays, celebrations, and special occasions.

Samsung&rsquo;s design features a red ribbon tied around a blue box with white dots. WhatsApp&rsquo;s present is wrapped with blue paper and red ribbon.

Wrapped Present

A ring with displaying a&nbsp;<a href="/gem-stone/" title=" 💎 Gem Stone">gem stone</a> of some kind on the top, most likely a diamond. This piece of jewellery is often&nbsp;associated with a proposal and subsequent&nbsp;engagement&nbsp;to be <a href="/wedding-marriage/">married</a>.

Ring

A headstone or tombstone, used to mark graves. Appearance varies from platform to platform, with different shapes and inscriptions.

Used to talk about death &mdash; literally, metaphorically, and metaphysically.

Often paired with other death-related emoji like <a href="/coffin/">⚰️ Coffin</a> and <a href="/skull-and-crossbones/">☠️ Skull and Crossbones</a>.

Headstone

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