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💔 Broken heart
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💔 Emoji meaning
My heart is broken! Heartbreak, heartache, pain.
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💔 Meaning
I am desperately unhappy! The broken red heart expresses sadness and suffering. Someone is love sick at the moment.
Examples
- Oh no, that's so mean! 💔
- Did he really not text you back? 💔
- I've been so sad since I got the news. 💔
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Broken heart vs red heart; same heart outline, crack detail can be missed or mis-seen in small size.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Broken heart” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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Keywords added
+ crushed + emotion + heart + heartbroken + lonely + sad
Keywords removed
- broken heart
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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Keywords added
+ broken heart
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ break + broken
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- break - broken
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Comments
(2) Comments
Claire Always thought using the broken heart 💔 means feeling brokenhearted 💔 because someone has let you down.
Darlene Heartbroken for you.