๐Ÿงก

๐Ÿงก Emoji meaning

Friends for life! Affectionate love, close friendship, care.

๐Ÿงก Meaning

An orange heart ๐Ÿงก is a versatile emoji that can be used in a variety of contexts. It represents both tender love and close friendship without conveying the same passion as the classic red heart. The orange heart can be used to express warmth and caring in a less romantic way, such as between siblings or close friends. Additionally, it represents half-hearted love or the need to be just friends in a relationship. Finally, it symbolizes a loving and supportive relationship that is not necessarily romantic.

Examples

  • You mean a lot to me. ๐Ÿงก
  • Thatโ€™s so sweet of you! ๐Ÿงก
  • Did you think of me today? ๐Ÿงก

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Orange heart
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Red heart

Red heart vs orange heart; color difference is small especially with display themes or color blindness.

Orange heart
โ†”

Orange heart vs yellow heart; adjacent warm colors, both indicate friendly or happy love.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œOrange heartโ€ was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ 143 + heart

Keywords removed

- orange heart

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ orange + orange heart

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Comments

(4) Comments

  • Warm feelings turning into love, ready to show it, but still a bit shy to reveal. It's the feeling when you miss someone and want to hug them so badly. That's what the orange heart is all about.

  • Feeling comfortable with someone.

  • It means you are my heart (you're important to me and I'm happy I met you <3)

  • This simply stands for love, warmth and life.