Anatomical Heart Emoji
A real heart with vessels, for medicine, biology and cardiac health.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Anatomical Heart emoji mean?
A real heart with vessels, for medicine, biology and cardiac health.
Medical and unsentimental. It is the heart that means the organ, not the feeling.
How to use 🫀 naturally
Health posts, medical work and anything literally about the organ.
Heart emoji express affection, support or enthusiasm, but colour and decoration change the intensity. The same heart can feel romantic with a partner and warmly platonic with a close friend.
From standard to slang
The history of 🫀
- 2020
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Anatomical Heart was first defined as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. A full release across faces, animals, food and objects.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2020 with the lungs, drawn with the great vessels visible. It exists because health campaigns had nothing but the romantic heart to work with.
- Today
How its use evolved
Health posts, medical work and anything literally about the organ.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🫀 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Check-up was clear 🫀
Cardiology placement starts Monday 🫀
Know the signs, it matters 🫀
When to use it
Using 🫀 clearly
Health posts, medical work and anything literally about the organ. It lands as anatomical heart emoji or 🫀 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the anatomical heart emoji
What does 🫀 mean in a text message?
A real heart with vessels, for medicine, biology and cardiac health. Medical and unsentimental. It is the heart that means the organ, not the feeling.
Is 🫀 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are anatomical heart emoji, 🫀 meaning, organ emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🫀 look different on another device?
U+1FAC0 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the anatomical heart emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🫀 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the anatomical heart emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🫀 as emoji in Emoji 13.0, dated 2020. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🫀 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FAC0 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🫀 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🫀 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1FAC0 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAC0} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%80 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAC0
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- anatomical heart emoji🫀 meaningorgan emoji
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