Love Letter Emoji
An envelope with a heart, for love notes, cards and affectionate post.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Love Letter emoji mean?
An envelope with a heart, for love notes, cards and affectionate post.
Romantic and old-fashioned in a deliberate way. It suits something written rather than typed.
How to use 💌 naturally
Valentine's messages, thank-you cards and anything sent with feeling.
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, Love Letter 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
An envelope sealed with a heart, from the carrier set where mail characters were everyday tools. The heart on the flap is the whole design, and nothing else about it has changed since.
- Today
How its use evolved
Valentine's messages, thank-you cards and anything sent with feeling.
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.
Posted it this morning, expect it Thursday 💌
Found the ones we wrote in 2009 💌
Card is in the bag, do not look 💌
When to use it
Using 💌 clearly
Valentine's messages, thank-you cards and anything sent with feeling. It lands as love letter emoji 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 love letter emoji
What does 💌 mean in a text message?
An envelope with a heart, for love notes, cards and affectionate post. Romantic and old-fashioned in a deliberate way. It suits something written rather than typed.
Is 💌 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are love letter emoji, 💌 meaning, love emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 💌 look different on another device?
U+1F48C 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 love letter 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 love letter 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+1F48C | 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 | \1F48C | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F48C} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%92%8C | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F48C
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- love letter emoji💌 meaninglove emoji
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