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💌Love Letter Emoji
💌 love letter is encoded at U+1F48C and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Hearts, alongside 24 related emojis.
What 💌 love letter 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 heart, letter and love and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Hearts.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F48C | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 💌 | |
| HTML decimal | 💌 | |
| CSS | \1F48C | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F48C} | |
| Python | \U0001F48C | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC8C | |
| Rust | \u{1f48c} | |
| Swift | \u{1F48C} | |
| PHP | \u{1F48C} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%92%8C | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 92 8C | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC8C | |
| Base64 | 8J+SjA== | |
| Decimal | 128140 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 💌
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “love letter”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “heart”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f48cand 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 💌 love letter emoji mean?+
💌 is the love letter emoji, tagged heart, letter and love. 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 💌?+
love letter is U+1F48C. In HTML that is 💌, in CSS \1F48C, and in JavaScript \u{1F48C}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 💌 emoji added?+
love letter 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 💌 love letter.