Green Heart Emoji
Affection tied to nature, growth and health, and a common team or brand colour.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Green Heart emoji mean?
Affection tied to nature, growth and health, and a common team or brand colour.
Steady and often thematic. It frequently stands for nature, health or a team colour rather than a distinct kind of affection.
How to use 💚 naturally
Environmental posts, gardening, sports allegiance and steady platonic support.
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 💚
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Green Heart was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A heart in green. It has drifted towards environmental and sports use, mostly because those are the contexts where the colour already means something.
- Today
How its use evolved
Environmental posts, gardening, sports allegiance and steady platonic support.
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.
The allotment is finally paying off 💚
Match day, come on you greens 💚
Walked instead of driving all week 💚
When to use it
Using 💚 clearly
Environmental posts, gardening, sports allegiance and steady platonic support. It lands as green heart meaning 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 green heart emoji
What does 💚 mean in a text message?
Affection tied to nature, growth and health, and a common team or brand colour. Steady and often thematic. It frequently stands for nature, health or a team colour rather than a distinct kind of affection.
Is 💚 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are green heart meaning, 💚 meaning, green heart emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 💚 look different on another device?
U+1F49A 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 green 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 green heart emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 💚 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. 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+1F49A | 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 | \1F49A | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F49A} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%92%9A | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F49A
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- green heart meaning💚 meaninggreen heart emoji
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