purple heart
Symbols
What it means when sent
Just a heart in most of the world, but among K-pop fans it is the standard way to say I love you; in the United States it is also the name of a medal for wounded soldiers.
- Code point
- U+1F49C
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Symbols usually carry an older meaning. ๐ฏ is not the number one hundred but total agreement, and ๐ต and ๐ณ are opposites โ full and vacant.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere โ it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
QWhat does ๐ mean?
Just a heart in most of the world, but among K-pop fans it is the standard way to say I love you; in the United States it is also the name of a medal for wounded soldiers.
QWhat is its official name?
Unicode calls it purple heart, code point U+1F49C. It sits under Symbols.
QDoes it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.