Smiling face with hearts

Feeling loved, cherished or full of affection. The hearts floating around the face suggest warm, cozy love more than raw attraction.

Common in messages to partners, family and close friends, under baby and pet photos, and in replies to kind words. It is softer and more wholesome than 😍, and it often answers a compliment with “aww, thank you.”

Facts

Smiling face with hearts 🥰 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face affection. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: or :smiling_face_with_hearts:. People also look for it with words like “3”, “adore”, “crush”, or “face”.

Timeline

1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Emoji 11.0