Broken heart

Meaning and uses

A red heart split down the middle. It means heartbreak, sadness or disappointment, from a real breakup to a favourite team losing a match.

Unicode details

💔 is the Unicode character named BROKEN HEART, code point U+1F494, in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is an emoji, listed under the name “broken heart”, so phones and most apps draw it in colour, and each platform has its own design.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type 💔

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “broken heart”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “broken heart”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1f494, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use 💔. In a CSS content property, use "\1F494".