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❤️ Red Heart Emoji

The classic heart for love, deep affection, care, gratitude, solidarity, or heartfelt support.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Red Heart
Category
Smileys & Emotion
Subcategory
Heart
Unicode
U+2764 U+FE0F
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The red heart emoji is the most direct digital symbol of love and affection. Partners use it romantically, while friends, relatives, and communities use it for care, gratitude, encouragement, and solidarity. It can stand alone as a warm acknowledgement or close a personal message. Its emotional weight is stronger than many coloured hearts, so the relationship and conversation matter. In formal settings, a less intimate symbol may be more appropriate.

Tone
FriendlyPositiveCheerful
Context note

A red heart may be romantic, familial, friendly, or supportive. If the relationship is unclear, words can prevent an unintended romantic reading.

Quick Meaning

The classic heart for love, deep affection, care, gratitude, solidarity, or heartfelt support.

Use Cases

How People Use ❤️

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Express romantic love or deep personal affection

Express romantic love or deep personal affection.

Thank someone for meaningful support

Thank someone for meaningful support.

Send care, sympathy, or solidarity

Send care, sympathy, or solidarity.

Warmly acknowledge a message without adding a sentence

Warmly acknowledge a message without adding a sentence.

Real Messages

❤️ Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ❤️.

“Thank you for being there when I needed help ❤️”

“Happy anniversary—love you always ❤️”

“Sending care to everyone affected ❤️”

Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.

Official Name

Red Heart

Subcategory: Heart

Aliases & Common Names

  • heart

Keywords & Search Terms

  • red heart
  • love
  • affection
  • care
  • support
  • gratitude
  • romance
  • solidarity
Developer Reference

❤️ Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+2764 U+FE0F
Code points
U+2764 U+FE0F
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x9D 0xA4 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-16
\u2764\uFE0F
HTML decimal entity
❤️
HTML hexadecimal entity
❤️
JavaScript escape
\u{2764}\u{FE0F}
CSS escape
\2764 \FE0F
Python string
\u2764\uFE0F
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ❤️

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
❤
U+2764Red Heart
+
Step 2
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
Discovery

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Emoji Styles

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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Red Heart emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Red Heart emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Red Heart emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Red Heart emoji in OpenMoji style

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FAQ

Questions About ❤️

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The classic heart for love, deep affection, care, gratitude, solidarity, or heartfelt support.