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Meaning & usage
What does the Orange Heart emoji mean?
An orange heart, for warmth, friendship and autumn.
Warm and platonic. It sits between the friendliness of 💛 and the heat of ❤️ without committing to either.
How to use 🧡 naturally
Friendship messages, autumn posts and team colours.
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 🧡
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Orange Heart was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2016 after Unicode noticed that orange was the one obvious gap in the coloured heart set. Requests for it had been arriving since the blue and yellow hearts shipped.
- Today
How its use evolved
Friendship messages, autumn posts and team colours.
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.
Thinking of you today 🧡
Autumn everything 🧡
Same colours since we were kids 🧡
When to use it
Using 🧡 clearly
Friendship messages, autumn posts and team colours. It lands as orange heart 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 orange heart emoji
What does 🧡 mean in a text message?
An orange heart, for warmth, friendship and autumn. Warm and platonic. It sits between the friendliness of 💛 and the heat of ❤️ without committing to either.
Is 🧡 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are orange heart emoji, 🧡 meaning, orange heart meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🧡 look different on another device?
U+1F9E1 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 orange 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 orange heart emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🧡 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. 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+1F9E1 | 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 | \1F9E1 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9E1} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%A1 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9E1
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- orange heart emoji🧡 meaningorange heart meaning
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