Heart with Arrow Emoji
Cupid's arrow through a heart: falling for someone, or infatuation that arrived uninvited.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Heart with Arrow emoji mean?
Cupid's arrow through a heart: falling for someone, or infatuation that arrived uninvited.
Romantic and a little theatrical. It suggests being struck by attraction rather than settled love, so it fits new crushes better than long relationships.
How to use 💘 naturally
New crushes, Valentine's messages and teasing a friend who is clearly smitten.
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, Heart with Arrow 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 pierced by an arrow, straight from Cupid and Valentine's card tradition. The arrow is always drawn entering from the upper left.
- Today
How its use evolved
New crushes, Valentine's messages and teasing a friend who is clearly smitten.
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.
One conversation and I'm gone 💘
Happy Valentine's 💘
She's been like this since Tuesday 💘
When to use it
Using 💘 clearly
New crushes, Valentine's messages and teasing a friend who is clearly smitten. It lands as heart with arrow 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 heart with arrow emoji
What does 💘 mean in a text message?
Cupid's arrow through a heart: falling for someone, or infatuation that arrived uninvited. Romantic and a little theatrical. It suggests being struck by attraction rather than settled love, so it fits new crushes better than long relationships.
Is 💘 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are heart with arrow meaning, 💘 meaning, cupid heart emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 💘 look different on another device?
U+1F498 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 with arrow 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 with arrow 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+1F498 | 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 | \1F498 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F498} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%92%98 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F498
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- heart with arrow meaning💘 meaningcupid heart emoji
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