White Heart Emoji
Quiet, minimal affection; also widely used for mourning and remembrance.
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Meaning & usage
What does the White Heart emoji mean?
Quiet, minimal affection; also widely used for mourning and remembrance.
Quiet and restrained. It reads as minimal and tasteful in aesthetic posts, but it is also widely used for mourning, so check the context before replying lightly.
How to use 🤍 naturally
Understated aesthetics, condolences and love expressed without colour or noise.
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 🤍
- 2019
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, White Heart was first defined as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. A broad release, and the one that filled in several long-standing gaps.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A heart in white with a visible outline, added in 2019. The outline exists because a filled white shape would vanish against most backgrounds.
- Today
How its use evolved
Understated aesthetics, condolences and love expressed without colour or noise.
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 your family today 🤍
Quiet morning, coffee, nothing else 🤍
Ten years today. We remember him 🤍
When to use it
Using 🤍 clearly
Understated aesthetics, condolences and love expressed without colour or noise. It lands as white heart meaning 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 white heart emoji
What does 🤍 mean in a text message?
Quiet, minimal affection; also widely used for mourning and remembrance. Quiet and restrained. It reads as minimal and tasteful in aesthetic posts, but it is also widely used for mourning, so check the context before replying lightly.
Is 🤍 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are white heart meaning, 🤍 meaning, white heart emoji mourning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤍 look different on another device?
U+1F90D 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 white 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 white heart emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤍 as emoji in Emoji 12.0, dated 2019. 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.
White Heart or Black Heart?
Both appear in mourning posts. 🤍 reads as quiet and tender; 🖤 carries more weight and more edge.
White Heart or Yellow Heart?
💛 is sunny and social. 🤍 is deliberately understated, which is why minimal aesthetics prefer it.
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+1F90D | 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 | \1F90D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F90D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%8D | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F90D
- Category
- Hearts & Love
- Also known as
- white heart meaning🤍 meaningwhite heart emoji mourning
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