Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💗Growing Heart Emoji
Generally, the 💗 emoji means you feel love or affection. It’s like a digital hug!
The 💗 emoji, also known as the Growing Heart, shows a heart shape with a little sprout coming out of it.
- Unicode
- U+1F497
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :heartpulse:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #42 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 💗 Growing 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 growing emoji.
02 — Platforms
Growing Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F497. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Growing Heart emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :heartpulse:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the growing heart, code point U+1F497.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💗 Growing Heart emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F497 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Growing 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Growing Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around growing 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: Growing Heart
Code: U+1F497 · added 2010
Shortcode: :heartpulse:
Generally, the 💗 emoji means you feel love or affection.
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 💗 Growing 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+1F497 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 E328.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Growing Heart was approved as U+1F497 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