Broken heart
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- Shortcode
:broken_heart:- Unicode
U+1F494- HTML
💔- CSS
\1F494- JavaScript
"\u{1F494}"- URL
%F0%9F%92%94
What ๐ means
Heartbreak, grief or deep disappointment, shown as a heart cracked in two.
Used after breakups, losses, sad news and tragedies, and in jokes about small letdowns like a sold-out concert. In sincere contexts it expresses sympathy or sorrow, for example in reply to news that a friend's pet has died.
Facts
Broken heart ๐ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under heart. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :broken_heart:. People also look for it with words like โbreakโ, โbrokenโ, โcrushedโ, or โemotionโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.