💔Broken Heart Emoji
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad or heartbroken. It’s often used to show empathy or to express a painful emotion.
The 💔 emoji is a broken heart.
- Unicode
- U+1F494
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :broken_heart:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #52 most used
What does the 💔 Broken Heart emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as heartbroken emoji, broken heart sad emoji, heart break emoji, break heart emoji.
Broken Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F494 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your broken heart looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Broken Heart emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :broken_heart:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the broken heart, code point U+1F494.
How to type the 💔 Broken Heart emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F494 when there is no key at all.
Broken Heart emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the broken heart as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Broken Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around broken heart for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 💔 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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.
💔 vs ❤️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Broken Heart
Code: U+1F494 · added 2010
Shortcode: :broken_heart:
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad or heartbroken.
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.
Where the 💔 Broken 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+1F494 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 E6EE, KDDI au E477, SoftBank E023.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Broken Heart was approved as U+1F494 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.
People wrote it as
</3 back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.