Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
❤️Red Heart Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you a ❤️, they’re expressing that they care about you and they like you. It’s a simple way to show affection and support.
The red heart emoji (❤️) basically means love.
- Unicode
- U+2764 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :heart:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #2 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the ❤️ Red Heart emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
02 — Platforms
Red Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+2764. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Red Heart emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :heart:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2764.
04 — How to type
How to type the ❤️ Red Heart emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2764 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Red Heart emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the red 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
Red Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around red 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What ❤️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the red 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: 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.
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.
12 — History
Where the ❤️ Red 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+2764 U+FE0F 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 E595, SoftBank E022.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Red Heart was approved as U+2764 U+FE0F 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.
People wrote it as
<3 back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.
13 — FAQ