💜Purple Heart Emoji
Generally, when a girl or guy sends you the purple heart, they’re expressing genuine affection or support. It’s a sweet way to show you care, similar to sending a regular heart.
The purple heart emoji (💜) basically means love, but it’s a deeper kind of love.
- Unicode
- U+1F49C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :purple_heart:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #32 most used
What does the 💜 Purple Heart emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
Purple Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the purple heart has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Purple 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 :purple_heart:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the purple heart, code point U+1F49C.
How to type the 💜 Purple Heart emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Purple 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Purple Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around purple 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
Who sent the purple heart and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 💜 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the purple heart lands changes how it is taken.
💜 vs 🩷 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Purple Heart
Code: U+1F49C · added 2010
Shortcode: :purple_heart:
Generally, when a girl or guy sends you the purple heart, they’re expressing genuine affection or support.
Unicode name: Pink Heart
Code: U+1FA77 · added 2022
Shortcode: :pink_heart:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🩷, they're expressing positive feelings like love, affection, or admiration.
Where the 💜 Purple 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+1F49C 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 EAAA, SoftBank E32D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Purple Heart was approved as U+1F49C 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.