Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes Emoji
Infatuation or strong admiration for a person, place or thing.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes emoji mean?
Infatuation or strong admiration for a person, place or thing.
Enthusiastic admiration with an affectionate edge. It can describe attraction to a person or simply strong love for food, clothes, places or creative work.
How to use 😍 naturally
Reacting to photos, food and anything you love at first sight.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 😍
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes 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
Eyes swapped for hearts, a cartoon device going back to early animation for showing infatuation. The hearts replace the gaze, so the face is looking at nothing but the thing it wants.
- Today
How its use evolved
Reacting to photos, food and anything you love at first sight.
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.
This colour combination is perfect 😍
Look at that sunset 😍
Your new puppy is adorable 😍
When to use it
Using 😍 clearly
Reacting to photos, food and anything you love at first sight. It lands as love or crush 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 smiling face with heart-eyes emoji
What does 😍 mean in a text message?
Infatuation or strong admiration for a person, place or thing. Enthusiastic admiration with an affectionate edge. It can describe attraction to a person or simply strong love for food, clothes, places or creative work.
Is 😍 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are love, crush, adore, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😍 look different on another device?
U+1F60D 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 smiling face with heart-eyes 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 smiling face with heart-eyes 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+1F60D | 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 | \1F60D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F60D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%8D | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F60D
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- lovecrushadorehearts
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