Smiling Face with Hearts Emoji
A soft smile surrounded by floating hearts, showing affection rather than attraction.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Smiling Face with Hearts emoji mean?
A soft smile surrounded by floating hearts, showing affection rather than attraction.
Affectionate without being romantic. It reads as being touched by something rather than attracted to it, which makes it comfortable between friends and family.
How to use 🥰 naturally
Thanking people warmly, reacting to something sweet and messages to people you love.
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 🥰
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Smiling Face with Hearts was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A closed, soft smile with hearts floating around the head rather than in the eyes. Placing the hearts outside the face is what makes it affection instead of attraction.
- Today
How its use evolved
Thanking people warmly, reacting to something sweet and messages to people you love.
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.
Thank you for today 🥰
Look at the two of them 🥰
She made me a card 🥰
When to use it
Using 🥰 clearly
Thanking people warmly, reacting to something sweet and messages to people you love. It lands as smiling face with hearts 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 smiling face with hearts emoji
What does 🥰 mean in a text message?
A soft smile surrounded by floating hearts, showing affection rather than attraction. Affectionate without being romantic. It reads as being touched by something rather than attracted to it, which makes it comfortable between friends and family.
Is 🥰 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are smiling face with hearts, 🥰 meaning, love face emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥰 look different on another device?
U+1F970 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 hearts 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 hearts emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥰 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. 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.
Easily confused
🥰 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Smiling Face with Hearts or Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes?
😍 is attraction — the hearts replace the eyes. 🥰 is affection, with the hearts floating around a closed, gentle smile.
Smiling Face with Hearts or Star-Struck?
🤩 is dazzled by something impressive. 🥰 is touched by something kind. One admires, the other loves.
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+1F970 | 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 | \1F970 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F970} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B0 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F970
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- smiling face with hearts🥰 meaninglove face emoji
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