Broken heart Emoji

Smileys

A classic red heart shape split clearly down the middle into two jagged pieces. It serves as a blunt, visual shorthand for emotional distress, romantic rejection, or the feeling of having one's feelings hurt.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for expressing sorrow, mourning a failed relationship, or reacting to bad news. It is frequently sent alongside 😭 to emphasize grief or paired with ❤️ to show the transition from happiness to heartbreak.

History

Before it became a standard emoji in 2010, the broken heart was a common text-based emoticon, often typed as '

Details

Glyph

💔

Unicode

U+1F494

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f494:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC94;

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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