White Heart emoji meaning

What does 🤍 mean in messages?

Gentle affection, support, remembrance, peace, or a clean and minimal aesthetic.

Use 🤍 for emotional tone, reactions, and conversational nuance. Unicode calls it “white heart.” That name is a safe, neutral label when the social meaning is not clear.

For a wider view, browse smileys & emotion emoji, use the emoji meaning finder, or read the emoji meanings in context guide.

Example messages with 🤍

Unicode construction and code points

This copyable emoji is a single-code-point emoji. It uses 1 core Unicode code point: U+1F90D white heart.

Version and platform support

The white heart emoji was introduced in Emoji 12.0 and is classified in the heart subgroup. Most maintained platforms support this emoji, although artwork and sequence handling still vary by vendor.

Names, keywords, and classification

The standardized name is “white heart.” Search terms indexed for this entry include heart, white. It belongs to Smileys & Emotion and the heart subgroup. These labels help identify and find the character; they do not prove a sender’s intended tone.

Accessibility and clear wording

For alt text, start with “white heart.” Use clearer words when the emoji is only decoration, a metaphor, or slang.

Do not use this emoji as the only carrier of an emergency, deadline, consent decision, medical instruction, or other high-stakes message. The character is standardized, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and social platforms supply different artwork.