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❤️‍🩹Mending Heart Emoji

Q: What does the ❤️🩹 mending heart emoji mean?

❤️🩹 is the mending heart emoji, tagged healthier, heart and improving. 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.

❤️‍🩹 is the mending heart emoji, U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79, one of 25 in the Hearts set. It arrived with Emoji 13.1 (2020) and is commonly used for healthier, heart and improving.

What ❤️‍🩹 mending 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 healthier, heart and improving and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Hearts.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ❤️‍🩹 is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

❤U+2764red heart
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
·U+200DZero-width joiner
🩹U+1FA79adhesive bandage

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79`
HTML hex	`❤️‍🩹`
HTML decimal	`❤️‍🩹`
CSS	`\2764\FE0F\200D\1FA79`
JavaScript	`\u{2764}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1FA79}`
Python	`\U00002764\U0000FE0F\U0000200D\U0001FA79`
Java / C#	`\u2764\uFE0F\u200D\uD83E\uDE79`
Rust	`\u{2764}\u{fe0f}\u{200d}\u{1fa79}`
Swift	`\u{2764}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1FA79}`
PHP	`\u{2764}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1FA79}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9D%A4%EF%B8%8F%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A9%B9`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9D A4 EF B8 8F E2 80 8D F0 9F A9 B9`
UTF-16 bytes	`2764 FE0F 200D D83E DE79`
Base64	`4p2k77iP4oCN8J+puQ==`
Decimal	`10084 65039 8205 129657`
Introduced	Emoji 13.1 (2020)

Keywords

healthier
heart
improving
mending
recovering
recuperating
well

Appears in these collections

How to type ❤️‍🩹

Windows — press Win + . and search “mending heart”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “healthier”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2764 and 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 ❤️‍🩹 mending heart emoji mean?+

❤️‍🩹 is the mending heart emoji, tagged healthier, heart and improving. 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 ❤️‍🩹?+

mending heart is U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79. In HTML that is ❤️‍🩹, in CSS \2764\FE0F\200D\1FA79, and in JavaScript \u{2764}\u{FE0F}\u{200D}\u{1FA79}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ❤️‍🩹 emoji added?+

mending heart got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.1 (2020). 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.

Added in Emoji 13.1 (2020)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ❤️‍🩹 mending heart.