❤️ Red heart
❤️ Emoji meaning
Love, affection, passion, gratitude, enthusiasm.
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❤️ Meaning
Love and affection are expressed by the red heart emoji ❤. In romantic relationships, it represents passion and deep feelings. But it can also express friendship or family affection. In everyday life, it is often used to express gratitude or appreciation. Also, it shows enthusiasm, passion, or approval for an idea or proposal. In social media, it is often used to add a positive, emotional note to posts or comments. Regardless of the context, the red heart is a universal sign of deep feelings and intimate relationships.
Examples
- I love you. ❤️
- Did you sleep well? ❤️
- That's so beautiful! ❤️
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Envelope with heart vs plain red heart; both are used to express romantic love or affection in messages.
Heart with arrow vs red heart; arrow detail may be missed, both simply stand for being in love.
Heart with ribbon vs red heart; both signal love and affection, ribbon is a minor visual difference.
Beating heart vs red heart; both represent love, heartbeat animation is often not obvious in static text.
Heart decoration vs red heart; both central heart symbols, decoration border may be ignored.
Heart exclamation vs red heart; in small sizes it may be read as a stylized heart, not punctuation.
Broken heart vs red heart; same heart outline, crack detail can be missed or mis-seen in small size.
Red heart vs orange heart; color difference is small especially with display themes or color blindness.
Red heart vs black heart; both hearts used for love or emotional emphasis, some users ignore the color nuance.
Emoji red heart vs heart suit; one is for love, the other a playing card suit, but they look almost identical in red.
Pink heart vs red heart; both vivid hearts, red/pink distinction is small in many UIs.
Heart hands vs red heart; both explicitly symbolize love or affection.
Anatomical heart vs red heart; real organ vs symbolic heart, many people use either for ‘heart’ generically.
ZWJ Sequence
Heart on fire vs red heart; both hearts show passion, fire overlay is subtle at small scale.
Mending heart vs red heart; bandage element can be tiny, so it looks like a regular heart.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Red 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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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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Comments
(4) Comments
Anonymous A heart of fire. It also means that we are angry about what we love and that we love passionately.
Paul I use this emoji to show my love to someone I love and care about.
Rathu Take care of yourself.
Harry Dating, in love with someone ❤️