💝

Text style	Emoji style
💝︎	💝️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
💝 U+1F49D, 💝 HEART WITH RIBBON ← 💜 [U+1F49C] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 💞 → [U+1F49E]

Translingual

Description

A heart with a ribbon, but see the usage notes.

Origin

First introduced in the emoji set of au by KDDI, a Japanese phone carrier, in January 2003 as a pixelated pink heart (🩷) with a red ribbon on its right. Later adopted by the Japanese mobile phone carrier SoftBank in June 2008 as an animated brown heart (🤎) with a pink ribbon, followed by Apple (which popularised emoji outside of Japan) in November as a pink heart with a yellow ribbon and bow on its left.

Standardised by the Unicode Consortium in Unicode 6.0 in October 2010.

Symbol

💝 (Internet slang)

1. Love; romance; affection; ♥.
2. A gift or present; a heart-shaped box of chocolates.
3. (metonymically) Valentine's Day.

Usage notes

• The design and display of this pictogram varies by platform and emoji set.