Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💖Sparkling Heart Emoji
Generally, 💖 means you really like or care about someone or something. It’s a way to show you think they're amazing and beautiful.
The 💖 emoji, also called “sparkling heart,” shows a heart with little sparkles around it.
- Unicode
- U+1F496
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :sparkling_
heart: - Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #36 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 💖 Sparkling Heart emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
People also look for it as good morning heart emoji.
02 — Platforms
Sparkling Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the sparkling heart has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Sparkling Heart emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :sparkling_heart:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the sparkling heart, code point U+1F496.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💖 Sparkling Heart emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F496 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Sparkling Heart emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the sparkling heart as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Sparkling Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sparkling 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: Sparkling Heart
Code: U+1F496 · added 2010
Shortcode: :sparkling_heart:
Generally, 💖 means you really like or care about someone or something.
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 💖 Sparkling 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+1F496 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 E6EC, KDDI au EAA6.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Sparkling Heart was approved as U+1F496 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