Instant love or strong admiration for something seen: a person, a meal, a view, a new pair of shoes. Heart eyes say โI want itโ or โthat's gorgeous.โ
Typical under photos and links, in reactions to good news, and in flirting. It leans more toward attraction and desire than ๐ฅฐ, which feels more tender and settled.
Facts
Smiling face with heart-eyes ๐ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face affection. 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 :heart_eyes: or :smiling_face_with_heart_eyes:. People also look for it with words like โ143โ, โbaeโ, โeyeโ, or โfaceโ.
Timeline
2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.