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.
What does 💘 mean from a girl or from a guy?
The same thing either way: Cupid's arrow through a heart: falling for someone, or infatuation that arrived uninvited. The sender's gender does not change what the character means. What does change it is how well you know each other, what the rest of the message says, and whether either of you is being ironic.
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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