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Meaning & usage
What does the Mending Heart emoji mean?
A red heart wrapped in a bandage, for healing after something hard.
Tender and hopeful. It says something is still healing without claiming it is fixed, which suits grief, illness and getting over a hard year.
How to use ❤️🩹 naturally
Recovery, grief that is easing and supporting someone through it.
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, Mending Heart 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 with an adhesive bandage across it, built as a sequence from ❤️ and 🩹 joined by an invisible character. It arrived in 2020, the same release as ❤️🔥, and older software shows the two parts side by side.
- Today
How its use evolved
Recovery, grief that is easing and supporting someone through it.
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.
Getting there, slowly ❤️🩹
Thinking of you this week ❤️🩹
Six months on and better ❤️🩹
When to use it
Using ❤️🩹 clearly
Recovery, grief that is easing and supporting someone through it. It lands as mending heart emoji or healing 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 mending heart emoji
What does ❤️🩹 mean in a text message?
A red heart wrapped in a bandage, for healing after something hard. Tender and hopeful. It says something is still healing without claiming it is fixed, which suits grief, illness and getting over a hard year.
Is ❤️🩹 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are mending heart emoji, healing heart emoji, ❤️🩹 meaning, 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+1FA79 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 mending 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 mending heart 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+1FA79 | 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 \1FA79 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{2764}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1FA79} | 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%A9%B9 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- mending heart emojihealing heart emoji❤️🩹 meaning
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