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 Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory heart

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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