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Meaning & usage
What does the Grey Heart emoji mean?
A grey heart, for muted affection, neutrality and quiet support.
Understated. It is the heart for affection without volume, and sometimes for sadness held quietly.
How to use 🩶 naturally
Low-key support messages, minimalist aesthetics and grief.
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 🩶
- 2022
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Grey Heart was first defined as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. A modest release continuing the annual cadence.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2023 with the light blue and pink hearts, filling the last obvious gaps in the colour set. Grey had been requested for years as the neutral option.
- Today
How its use evolved
Low-key support messages, minimalist aesthetics and grief.
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.
Here if you need anything 🩶
Everything in this room is this colour 🩶
Quiet week, quiet heart 🩶
When to use it
Using 🩶 clearly
Low-key support messages, minimalist aesthetics and grief. It lands as grey heart emoji or gray heart emoji 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 grey heart emoji
What does 🩶 mean in a text message?
A grey heart, for muted affection, neutrality and quiet support. Understated. It is the heart for affection without volume, and sometimes for sadness held quietly.
Is 🩶 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are grey heart emoji, gray heart emoji, 🩶 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🩶 look different on another device?
U+1FA76 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 grey 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 grey heart emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🩶 as emoji in Emoji 15.0, dated 2022. 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+1FA76 | 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 | \1FA76 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FA76} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A9%B6 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FA76
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- grey heart emojigray heart emoji🩶 meaning
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