Hollow heart
♡
U+2661. Lighter and sweeter. The default for cute and friendly messages.
Faces built around ♡ and ♥
Heart Kaomoji
Heart kaomoji use ♡ or ♥ as a working part of the face, not as punctuation: as eyes, as something held out, or as a mark trailing the face. The choice between hollow and solid is the one that actually changes the tone, and it is the choice most people make by accident.
(♡‿♡)
Quick answer
Which one should you use?
(♡‿♡) is the most used heart kaomoji: hearts replacing both eyes, meaning smitten. Hollow ♡ is sweet and light; solid ♥ is heavier and more sincere, so (♥ω♥) lands harder than (♡ω♡) despite being the same face. Hearts placed outside the brackets, like (◍•ᴗ•◍)♡, decorate the message instead of describing the sender.
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20 heart kaomoji
Every face is plain text. Tap one to copy it, then paste it wherever you are typing — it travels as ordinary characters, not as an image.
(♡‿♡)
Smitten
Hearts for eyes. The standard heart kaomoji.
(♥ω♥)
In love
The solid heart makes this noticeably more sincere.
(｡♥‿♥｡)
Framed and smitten
Full-width dots act as flushed cheeks.
(*♡∀♡)
Delighted admiration
One heart eye and an open mouth. Impressed, not smitten.
(♡°▽°♡)
Hearts either side
The hearts are decoration here; the face itself stays neutral.
(´ ˘ `♡)
Content with a heart
The heart sits inside the bracket like a thought.
♡( ◡‿◡ )
Offered heart
The heart comes first, so you are giving one, not feeling one.
(◍•ᴗ•◍)♡
Sweet aside
The trailing heart decorates the message, not the face.
( ˘ ³˘)♥
Kiss with heart
The clearest way to send affection without words.
ヽ(♡‿♡)ノ
Excited and smitten
Raised arms turn admiration into enthusiasm.
(っ♡ω♡)っ
Reaching out
Arms extended, hearts for eyes. Wanting, not having.
♡(⌒▽⌒)♡
Framed by hearts
Symmetrical decoration; good for a caption.
(*♥ω♥*)
Flushed and in love
Blush marks plus solid hearts. The warmest face here.
(♥д♥)
Overwhelmed
The д mouth hangs open in astonishment. Dazzled, slightly stupidly.
♥(ˆ⌣ˆ)
Quiet affection
Understated: a small heart beside a small smile.
(≧♡≦)
Heart squeeze
Here the heart takes the mouth, not the eyes.
♡(ᐢ ᴥ ᐢ)
Heart and animal
Canadian syllabics as ears above a snout.
(´♡‿♡`)
Soft smitten
The accents relax the face compared with (♡‿♡).
♡(｡- ω -)
Fond and sleepy
Closed eyes with a heart. Affection at rest.
(♡ᴗ♡)
Minimal hearts
The shortest heart face; fits in a display name.
How they are built
The parts these faces are made of
Kaomoji are assembled rather than drawn. Once you can see the components, you can adjust any face on this page instead of hunting for a different one.
Solid heart
♥
U+2665. Heavier and more sincere. Romantic where ♡ is merely fond.
Hearts as eyes
(♡_♡)
Describes the sender's state: smitten, dazzled, admiring.
Hearts outside
(◡‿◡)♡
Decorates the message instead. Useful when you want warmth without a declaration.
Before you paste
Getting them to arrive intact
Paste as plain text
Markdown and rich-text editors treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting. A face that loses an arm or a cheek was almost certainly parsed rather than pasted.
Hollow before solid
♡ is safe in almost any context. ♥ is a stronger claim, and sending it early reads very differently from sending it to a partner.
Hearts are plain text
♡ and ♥ are Unicode characters, not emoji, so they stay monochrome and take the colour of the surrounding text. That is often the reason to prefer them over ❤️.
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Faces with a full write-up
Some of these have their own page covering where the face came from and how its meaning has shifted.
Questions
Heart Kaomoji FAQ
What is the heart kaomoji?
(♡‿♡) is a smiling face with hearts where the eyes should be, meaning smitten or delighted by something. It is the heart equivalent of the 😍 emoji, with the difference that it is plain text and takes the colour of whatever it is written in.
What is the difference between ♡ and ♥?
♡ is U+2661, the hollow heart, and ♥ is U+2665, the solid one. Both are ordinary Unicode symbols rather than emoji. The hollow heart is light and affectionate; the solid one is stronger and more romantic, so the same face changes meaning depending on which you pick.
Are heart kaomoji the same as heart emoji?
No. ♡ and ♥ are text symbols that stay the colour of the surrounding text and render in any font. ❤️ is an emoji with its own colour artwork drawn by each platform. Kaomoji use the text versions, which is why a heart kaomoji looks consistent everywhere while a heart emoji does not.
How do I put a heart in a kaomoji?
Replace an eye with it, place it inside the closing bracket, or trail it after the face. Each position means something slightly different: hearts as eyes describe how the sender feels, a heart inside the bracket works like a thought, and a heart after the face decorates the message without making a claim.
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