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💔Broken Heart Emoji
💔 broken heart — U+1F494, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 25 hearts emojis under Smileys & Emotion.
What 💔 broken heart means
Hearts carry more social range than almost any other family: romance, friendship, condolence, fandom and plain acknowledgement, with the color usually holding the nuance. ❤️ needs an invisible variation selector to render in color, which is why it sometimes appears as a black outline in older software. 🤍 and 🤎 only arrived in 2019.
Unicode tags this one break, broken and crushed and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Hearts.
Copy variants
Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F494 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 💔 | |
| HTML decimal | 💔 | |
| CSS | \1F494 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F494} | |
| Python | \U0001F494 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC94 | |
| Rust | \u{1f494} | |
| Swift | \u{1F494} | |
| PHP | \u{1F494} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%92%94 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 92 94 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC94 | |
| Base64 | 8J+SlA== | |
| Decimal | 128148 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- break
- broken
- crushed
- emotion
- heart
- heartbroken
- lonely
- sad
Appears in these collections
How to type 💔
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “broken heart”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “break”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f494and Enter. - HTML — paste
💔.
How 💔 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 💔Apple
- 💔Segoe
- 💔Noto
- 💔System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 💔 broken heart emoji mean?+
💔 is the broken heart emoji, tagged break, broken and crushed. Hearts carry more social range than almost any other family: romance, friendship, condolence, fandom and plain acknowledgement, with the color usually holding the nuance. ❤️ needs an invisible variation selector to render in color, which is why it sometimes appears as a black outline in older software. 🤍 and 🤎 only arrived in 2019.
What is the Unicode code for 💔?+
broken heart is U+1F494. In HTML that is 💔, in CSS \1F494, and in JavaScript \u{1F494}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 💔 emoji added?+
broken heart got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Hearts in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 💔 broken heart.