Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 5.0
🧡Orange Heart Emoji
Basically, when someone sends you 🧡 in a text, they’re just letting you know they care about you and they’re feeling warm towards you. It’s a simple way to show affection or support.
The 🧡 emoji is an orange heart.
- Unicode
- U+1F9E1
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :orange_
heart: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧡 Orange Heart emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Orange Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the orange 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
Orange 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 :orange_heart:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the orange heart, code point U+1F9E1.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧡 Orange Heart emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9E1 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Orange Heart emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the orange 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
Orange Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around orange 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
Who sent the orange heart and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🧡 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the orange heart lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🧡 vs ❤️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Orange Heart
Code: U+1F9E1 · added 2017
Shortcode: :orange_heart:
Basically, when someone sends you 🧡 in a text, they’re just letting you know they care about you and they’re feeling warm towards 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 🧡 Orange Heart emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the orange heart to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9E1 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.
Orange Heart was approved as U+1F9E1 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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