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❤️🩹 Mending heart
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❤️🩹 Emoji meaning
Recovery, coping with grief, loss, heartbreak.
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❤️🩹 Meaning
The heart has a bandage on it. A sign that it has been injured and is healing. Indicates coping with grief or loss. Perhaps a relationship has broken up, a love has gone unfulfilled, or a loved one has passed away.
Examples
- It still hurts! ❤️🩹
- My heart is slowly healing. ❤️🩹
- Are you feeling a little better? ❤️🩹
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Commonly confused with
ZWJ Sequence
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 “Mending heart” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.1 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ heart
Keywords removed
- mending heart
In the release of Emoji 13.1 and Unicode 13.0 in 2020 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ healthier + improving + mending + mending heart + recovering + recuperating + well
