What does ๐ mean?
Yellow heart: friendship, happiness and sunshine. Often seen as the 'friendly love' heart, less romantic.
Its official Unicode name is YELLOW HEART and its CLDR short name is "yellow heart" (in Hungarian: "sรกrga szรญv"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- 143
- cardiac
- emotion
- heart
- ily
- love
- yellow
In Hungarian: sรกrga, szรญv
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws ๐ in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F49B. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- YELLOW HEART
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- sรกrga szรญv
- English name (CLDR)
- yellow heart
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion ยท heart
- Length
- 1 code point ยท 4 bytes in UTF-8 ยท 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :yellow_heart:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the ๐ emoji mean?
Yellow heart: friendship, happiness and sunshine. Often seen as the 'friendly love' heart, less romantic.
How do I type the ๐ emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "143".
When was the ๐ emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.