Represents healing, emotional recovery, or learning to love again after pain. It’s tender and hopeful — like saying “I’m getting better” or “I’m healing.”
After a breakup, your friend checks in to see how you’re doing.
Slowly finding peace ❤️🩹
mending heart
❤️🩹mending heart
Definitions & examples
- Groups
- Subgroups
- Unicode
- U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79
- Variant status
- Fully-qualified
- Emoji version
- E13.1
Often used to show support or empathy for someone else’s struggle (“Thinking of you ❤️🩹”), not just your own healing.
In Japanese chats, ❤️🩹 might appear with expressions like “がんばる” or “少しずつね” to convey encouragement and gentle perseverance — it’s less about heartbreak and more about emotional recovery. In Western fandoms, it’s sometimes used to signal resilience or post-drama growth, especially in aesthetic edits or captions.
Because ❤️🩹 feels intimate, avoid dropping it in casual or group chats unless you’re offering sincere comfort — otherwise it may read as overly personal.
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Differences between ❤️🩹 (mending heart) and ❤️ (red heart)
Both are heart shapes with red tones. ❤️🩹 expresses healing and recovery, a tender sign that emotional wounds are mending. ❤️ reads as a straightforward declaration of deep love and warm affection. The red heart feels more immediate and unambiguous. The mending heart carries a soft vulnerability and a narrative of repair, while the red heart projects steady, confident devotion. The mending heart suggests gradual renewal and gentle hope. The red heart conveys enduring warmth and clear commitment.
Usage
Use ❤️🩹 when you want to acknowledge someone’s pain or your own healing with tenderness and hope; be gentle and specific. Use ❤️ when you want to express straightforward love, strong affection, or clear emotional support; be sincere and direct.
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ZWJ Composition
See how ❤️🩹 is built from its components, split by zero-width joiner (ZWJ).
❤
U+2764
ZWJ
🩹
U+1FA79