โค๏ธ Heart Emojis โ€” Every Colour and What It Means

Hearts are the most-sent emoji family in the world, and each colour carries a different signal. Tap any heart below to copy it, then use the meaning notes to pick the one that matches your message.

Heart Emojis list (28)

About heart emojis

Red โค๏ธ is sincere love and works for partners, family and friends alike. Pink ๐Ÿ’• ๐Ÿ’— reads as sweet and affectionate rather than romantic, which makes it the safest heart for friends.

Purple ๐Ÿ’œ is strongly associated with fandom and BTS-adjacent communities, yellow ๐Ÿ’› with friendship, green ๐Ÿ’š with jealousy or nature themes, and blue ๐Ÿ’™ with loyalty and calm support.

Black ๐Ÿ–ค is used for grief, dark aesthetics and dry humour, white ๐Ÿค for minimal, clean captions, and the broken heart ๐Ÿ’” for loss or disappointment. The sparkling heart ๐Ÿ’– and growing heart ๐Ÿ’— add motion to a message where a flat red heart would feel plain.

Frequently asked questions

What does each heart emoji colour mean?

Red is sincere love, pink is sweet or platonic affection, purple is fandom and admiration, yellow is friendship, green is jealousy or nature, blue is loyalty and support, black is grief or dark humour, and white is minimal and clean.

Which heart emoji should I send a friend?

Pink ๐Ÿ’•, yellow ๐Ÿ’› or the two-hands heart ๐Ÿซถ read as warm and platonic, so they avoid the romantic reading of the red heart.

Why does the red heart sometimes show as a black outline?

The red heart is U+2764 plus a variation selector. Apps that drop the variation selector render the older text-style outline instead of the colour emoji.

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