Try Heart on Fire emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Heart on Fire emoji mean?
Burning passion or intense devotion.
Passionate, intense and highly expressive. It communicates stronger desire or devotion than a standard heart and can also praise something exceptionally exciting.
How to use ❤️🔥 naturally
Romantic intensity, or loving something fiercely.
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, Heart on Fire was first defined as emoji in Emoji 13.1, dated 2020. Another sequence-only release, including the heart concepts.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A red heart wrapped in flame, built as a sequence joining ❤️ to 🔥 rather than encoded as a new character. It draws on the Sacred Heart of Catholic iconography.
- Today
How its use evolved
Romantic intensity, or loving something fiercely.
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.
That performance was incredible ❤️🔥
Still completely obsessed with you ❤️🔥
This new track is on repeat ❤️🔥
When to use it
Using ❤️🔥 clearly
Romantic intensity, or loving something fiercely. It lands as passion or burning 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 heart on fire emoji
What does ❤️🔥 mean in a text message?
Burning passion or intense devotion. Passionate, intense and highly expressive. It communicates stronger desire or devotion than a standard heart and can also praise something exceptionally exciting.
Is ❤️🔥 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are passion, burning, desire, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ❤️🔥 look different on another device?
U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F525 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 heart on fire 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 heart on fire emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records ❤️🔥 as emoji in Emoji 13.1, 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+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F525 | 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 | \2764 \FE0F \200D \1F525 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{2764}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1F525} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9D%A4%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%94%A5 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1F525
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- passionburningdesire
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