Blue heart Emoji

Smileys

A vibrant, solid blue heart shape. It stands out from the traditional red heart because it lacks the connotation of intense romantic passion, offering a cooler, more stable appearance.

Usage Context

Widely used to express platonic love, loyalty, trust, or support for a favorite sports team that uses blue as a primary color. It is often sent to convey comfort or to show appreciation without the intensity of ❤️.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, the blue heart was part of the initial expansion to provide more diverse color options for expressions of emotion, moving beyond the standard red ❤️ or yellow 💛 hearts that dominated early messaging.

Details

Glyph

💙

Unicode

U+1F499

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f499:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC99;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory heart

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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