Smiling face with heart-eyes Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face with a wide, happy smile and two large, bright red hearts for eyes. The expression clearly signals intense attraction, adoration, or complete fascination with a person, place, or thing.

Usage Context

This is the go-to emoji for expressing love at first sight or obsession with a new hobby or trend. It is frequently used when reacting to pictures of food, pets, or significant others. It pairs naturally with other affection-based icons like 🥰 or 😘 to amplify the intensity of the sentiment.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, this icon evolved from early text-based emoticons like <3, which relied on the sender's ability to combine symbols to convey deep affection. It became an instant staple of mobile messaging apps as users looked for faster ways to express excitement without typing out long phrases.

Details

Glyph

😍

Unicode

U+1F60D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f60d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE0D;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-affection

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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