Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💓Beating Heart Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 💓 in a text, they’re showing they care about you and want you to know they’re thinking of you. It's a simple way to express warmth and positive feelings.
The 💓 emoji shows a beating heart.
- Unicode
- U+1F493
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :heartbeat:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💓 Beating Heart emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
People also look for it as heart beating emoji.
02 — Platforms
Beating Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the beating heart 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 — Copy & codes
Beating Heart emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :heartbeat:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the beating heart, code point U+1F493.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💓 Beating Heart emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F493 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Beating Heart emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Beating Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around beating heart 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 with 💓, 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — 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.
11 — Difference
💓 vs ❤️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Beating Heart
Code: U+1F493 · added 2010
Shortcode: :heartbeat:
Generally, when someone sends you 💓 in a text, they’re showing they care about you and want you to know they’re thinking of you.
Unicode name: Red Heart
Code: U+2764 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :heart:
Generally, when someone sends you a ❤️, they’re expressing that they care about you and they like you.
12 — History
Where the 💓 Beating Heart 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+1F493 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 E6ED, KDDI au EB75, SoftBank E327.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Beating Heart was approved as U+1F493 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.
13 — FAQ