Broken Heart Emoji
Copy 💔 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 💔 mean?
A red heart split down the middle. Heartbreak, grief, or disappointment.
💔 is the broken heart emoji. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group, in the heart set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as break, broken, crushed, emotion, heart, heartbroken, lonely, sad.
How to use 💔
Used for relationships, but just as often for sad news, a lost match, or something disappointing.
Click the copy button above to put 💔 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :broken_heart: directly.
Good to know
One of the few emoji people still use in a completely unironic register — it rarely reads as a joke.
Technical details
| Name | Broken Heart |
|---|---|
| Character | 💔 |
| Codepoint | U+1F494 |
| HTML entity | 💔 |
| CSS code | \1F494 |
| Shortcode | :broken_heart: |
| Text equivalent | </3 |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | heart |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | break, broken, crushed, emotion, heart, heartbroken, lonely, sad |