Represents gentle, sweet love — softer than ❤️ and more emotional than 💕. It’s often used to show affection, admiration, or emotional closeness without sounding too intense.
You post a throwback of your friends’ trip.
Still my favorite people 🩷
pink heart
🩷pink heart
Definitions & examples
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- Unicode
- U+1FA77
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- Fully-qualified
- Emoji version
- E15.0
Commonly used for friendship, self-love, or aesthetic appreciation (like pastel vibes or “soft girl” moodboards).
In Japanese chats, 🩷 blends kawaii sweetness with modern femininity — it’s often paired with sparkles or emoticons like “🩷✨” to show warm excitement or gratitude. In South Korea, it appears in influencer captions or fan posts as a trendy alternative to 💖, seen as stylish and emotionally refined.
Though it feels new and friendly, don’t overuse it in professional settings — it can read as overly sentimental or informal.
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Differences between 🩷 (pink heart) and 💕 (two hearts)
Both are pink hearts. 🩷 conveys gentle, sweet love, a softer emotional tone and personal affection. 💕 feels like a shared warmth, suggesting mutual closeness and a supportive pair. The tone of 💕 is slightly more social, cooperative, and together, while 🩷 reads as singular and inward. 💕 implies a reciprocal bond and a cozy, pair-based tenderness rather than the solitary affection that 🩷 expresses.
Usage
Use 🩷 when you want to express gentle, personal affection or admiration quietly and sweetly. Use 💕 when you want to emphasize mutual warmth and a shared, supportive bond between two people.
Differences between 🩷 (pink heart) and ❤️ (red heart)
Both are heart shapes that signal affection and warmth. 🩷 conveys gentle, sweet love and a softer emotional tone. It suggests tenderness and admiration with a delicate emotional texture. ❤️ feels deeper and more decisive, carrying straightforward, sincere love and strong emotional warmth. The red heart has a timeless intensity and clarity that contrasts the pink heart's subtlety. The red heart reads as more direct and unequivocal, expressing a firmer commitment of feeling while the pink heart maintains a lighter, more tender resonance.
Usage
You might send 🩷 pink heart to a close friend or new romantic interest to express fondness and emotional closeness without intense declaration. You might send ❤️ red heart to a partner or family member to convey deep, clear love and lasting commitment.
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🩵
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A warm, tender kiss — softer and more emotional than 😙. It often shows affection, gratitude, or love, like saying “thank you” or “I adore you.”