Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 15.0
🩶Grey Heart Emoji
Generally, it means you care about someone or something, but in a more understated way. It’s a gentle expression of fondness.
The 🩶 emoji, often called the grey heart, is a really cool and subtle way to show affection.
- Unicode
- U+1FA76
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :grey_
heart: - Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🩶 Grey 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 gray heart emoji, silver heart emoji, heart grey emoji.
02 — Platforms
Grey Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FA76 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your grey heart 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
Grey Heart emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :grey_heart:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FA76.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🩶 Grey Heart emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FA76 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Grey 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
Grey Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around grey 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
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+1FA76, 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: Grey Heart
Code: U+1FA76 · added 2022
Shortcode: :grey_heart:
Generally, it means you care about someone or something, but in a more understated way.
Unicode name: Yellow Heart
Code: U+1F49B · added 2010
Shortcode: :yellow_heart:
Generally, 💛 means you’re feeling love, friendship, or happiness.
12 — History
Where the 🩶 Grey Heart emoji came from
It arrived with the 15.0 release of the standard, which dates the grey heart to 2022.
Same character every time — U+1FA76 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.
Grey Heart was approved as U+1FA76 and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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