Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💘Heart with Arrow Emoji
Generally, it means someone is telling you they have a crush on you or they’re feeling romantic about you. It's a pretty straightforward way to say you’ve caught their eye.
The 💘 emoji shows a heart with an arrow going through it.
- Unicode
- U+1F498
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cupid:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💘 Heart with Arrow emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 10 of them.
02 — Platforms
Heart with Arrow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the heart with arrow as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Heart with Arrow 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 :cupid:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F498.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💘 Heart with Arrow emoji
No picker to hand? The heart with arrow can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Heart with Arrow emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the heart with arrow 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
06 — Combinations
Heart with Arrow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around heart with arrow 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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: Heart with Arrow
Code: U+1F498 · added 2010
Shortcode: :cupid:
Generally, it means someone is telling you they have a crush on you or they’re feeling romantic about 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 💘 Heart with Arrow 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+1F498 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 E4EA, SoftBank E329.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Heart with Arrow was approved as U+1F498 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