The beating heart emoji is 💓, U+1F493, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode names it Beating heart, and it is the heartbeat emoji too: CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files heartbeat under it and one other, Anatomical heart.
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First of thirteen
Its code point opens a run of thirteen hearts, U+1F493 to U+1F49F, though Unicode’s emoji list puts it sixth in the heart group, between Growing heart and Revolving hearts. Beating, pulsating and cardio lead to this emoji alone. Pulse it shares with Growing heart and Anatomical heart.
The line is typed
No Unicode character has heartbeat or pulse in its name, and CLDR files no emoji under ecg or ekg: nothing is named for the jagged trace a heartbeat draws. So the trace is typed, with slashes for the spike and a heart for the beat, as in Heartbeat line.
Questions and answers
What does the beating heart emoji mean?
Among its CLDR search words, love stands beside five physical ones: beating, heartbeat, pulse, pulsating and cardio. It is a heart you can feel going, whether the cause is a crush or a run.
How do I type a heart beating emoticon?
Keyboard keys are enough: __/\__/\__<3 is a flat line with two spikes that ends in the typed heart. With symbols, ♥︎ ♡ ♥︎ ♡ alternates filled and outline so the heart seems to pulse. Both are plain text.
How do you write a heartbeat sound in text?
English writes it lub-dub, which Wiktionary records for the two sounds of a normal heartbeat. Japanese uses ドキドキ, doki doki, glossed there as with a racing heart.
All 25 items
Beating heart 4
🫀Anatomical heartU+1FAC0. The only other emoji filed under heartbeat. Also under pulse and beat. Emoji 13.0.
💓Beating heartU+1F493. Filed under beating, heartbeat, pulse, pulsating and cardio. Beating, pulsating and cardio lead to no other emoji. Emoji 0.6.
💗Growing heartU+1F497. Listed straight before Beating heart. Filed under pulse too, and under growing and nervous. Emoji 0.6.
💞Revolving heartsU+1F49E. Listed straight after Beating heart. Filed under revolving and anniversary. Emoji 0.6.
Heartbeat as text 7
_/\_♥︎_/\_A flat line, a spike, a heart, a spike
♥︎ . . ♥︎ . . ♥︎Three beats with rests between
♥︎ ♡ ♥︎ ♡Filled, outline, filled, outline: a heart that pulses
ドキドキ ♥︎Doki doki, the Japanese sound word for a pounding heart
__/\__/\__<3Keyboard keys only: a trace that ends in the typed heart
lub-dub ♥︎The two sounds of a heartbeat, as English writes them
─√v─♥︎─√v─The spike drawn with the square root sign
Heartbeat drawings 2
Heartbeat lineOne beat on a line that ends in a typed heart. Four lines, keyboard keys only.
Heartbeat on a monitorThe same beat inside a screen. Six lines, keyboard keys only.
Beating heart lines 4
be still, my heart 💓A saying for calming yourself down when overly excited
cardio done 💓CLDR files the emoji under cardio
my heart skipped a beat 💓Said of a heart, to skip a beat is to feel a strong emotion
pulse check 💓CLDR files the emoji under pulse
Beating heart combos 8
👟💓After a runRunning shoe, then beating heart.
🥁💓DrumrollDrum, then beating heart.
🫀💓Heart and pulseAnatomical heart, then beating heart. The two emoji CLDR files under heartbeat.
👻💓Jump scareGhost, then beating heart.
🪘💓Keeping the beatLong drum, then beating heart. Long drum is filed under beat and rhythm.
🎢💓Roller coasterRoller coaster, then beating heart.