Growing heart

Meaning and uses

A pink heart drawn with rings around it to show it getting bigger. It suggests feelings that are growing and is a softer alternative to the red heart in replies and bios.

Unicode details

💗 is the Unicode character named GROWING HEART, code point U+1F497, 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 “growing 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 “growing 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 “growing heart”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1f497, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use 💗. In a CSS content property, use "\1F497".