Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
💝Heart with Ribbon Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 💝 in a text, they’re expressing that they care about you and want you to know they’re thinking of you. It’s a sweet way to show affection without saying “I love you.”
The 💝 emoji is a heart shape with a ribbon and a bow around it.
- Unicode
- U+1F49D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :gift_
heart: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 💝 Heart with Ribbon emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as ribbon heart emoji, gift heart emoji, heart ribbon emoji.
02 — Platforms
Heart with Ribbon emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F49D — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your heart with ribbon looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Heart with Ribbon 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 :gift_heart:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the heart with ribbon, code point U+1F49D.
04 — How to type
How to type the 💝 Heart with Ribbon emoji
No picker to hand? The heart with ribbon can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Heart with Ribbon emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the heart with ribbon 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Heart with Ribbon emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around heart with ribbon 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
Chat apps do not change U+1F49D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
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 Ribbon
Code: U+1F49D · added 2010
Shortcode: :gift_heart:
Generally, when someone sends you 💝 in a text, they’re expressing that they care about you and want you to know they’re thinking of 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 Ribbon 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+1F49D 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 EB54, SoftBank E437.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Heart with Ribbon was approved as U+1F49D 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