Growing Heart Emoji

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Growing Heart Emoji

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59 items. Tap one to copy it.

Growing heart 5

Other hearts 8

Same search words 9

Text hearts 5

Typed growing hearts 7

Heart drawings 3

Growing heart lines 9

Growing heart combos 13

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How it works

The growing heart emoji is 💗, U+1F497, from Emoji 0.6, the first version in Unicode’s list. Unicode names it Growing heart, and no other emoji has growing among its search words.

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Which heart is the growing one

Unicode lists Growing heart fifth in its heart group, straight after Sparkling heart and before Beating heart, Revolving hearts and Two hearts. All five date from Emoji 0.6. Sparkling heart is U+1F496 and Growing heart U+1F497, one code point apart. Unicode gives the character a name and no note, so the name is the whole description.

What it is filed under

CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, gives it twelve, among them growing, excited, nervous, pulse, kisses, muah and xoxo. It is the only heart filed under nervous, and the only other emoji under both nervous and excited is Grinning face with sweat. Love is not one of its words, though CLDR files Beating heart, Two hearts and Pink heart there.

Questions and answers

What does the growing heart emoji mean?

A feeling that is getting stronger: CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files it under excited and nervous. Two more of its words, ily and 143, are shorthand for I love you: Wiktionary records that 143 counts the letters in each word.

How do I copy and paste the growing heart emoji?

Press Copy and 💗 is on your clipboard. It is one character, and Unicode lists no text style for it, so there is no black and white form to fall back on.

What is the difference between the growing heart and the beating heart?

The names, the code points and the search words. Beating heart is U+1F493 and keeps beating, heartbeat and cardio. Growing heart is U+1F497 and keeps growing, excited and nervous. CLDR files both under pulse.

Is the growing heart the same as the pink heart?

No. Pink heart is U+1FA77, named for its colour, and arrived in Emoji 15.0. Growing heart has been in the list since Emoji 0.6 and is named for what it does. CLDR files pink under the first and not the second.

All 59 items

Growing heart 5

  • Beating heart U+1F493. Listed straight after Growing heart. Filed under beating, heartbeat and pulse. Emoji 0.6.
  • Growing heart U+1F497. Filed under growing, excited, nervous and pulse. The only emoji filed under growing. Emoji 0.6.
  • Revolving hearts U+1F49E. Two listed after Growing heart. Filed under revolving and hearts. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sparkling heart U+1F496. Listed straight before Growing heart, one code point lower. Filed under sparkle and excited. Emoji 0.6.
  • Two hearts U+1F495. Three listed after Growing heart. Filed under two and hearts. Emoji 0.6.

Other hearts 8

  • Heart decoration U+1F49F. Filed under decoration. Emoji 0.6.
  • Heart exclamation U+2763 U+FE0F. Filed under exclamation and punctuation. Emoji 1.0.
  • Heart with arrow U+1F498. Filed under cupid and arrow. Emoji 0.6.
  • Heart with ribbon U+1F49D. Filed under ribbon and anniversary. Emoji 0.6.
  • Love letter U+1F48C. The first emoji in Unicode’s heart group. Filed under letter and valentine. Emoji 0.6.
  • Mending heart U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79. Filed under mending and recovering. Emoji 13.1.
  • Pink heart U+1FA77. Named for its colour, unlike Growing heart. Filed under pink and cute. Emoji 15.0.
  • Red heart U+2764 U+FE0F. Filed under love and red. Emoji 0.6.
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Same search words 9

  • Anatomical heart U+1FAC0. Filed under pulse and heartbeat. Growing heart and Beating heart share pulse with it. Emoji 13.0.
  • Anxious face with sweat U+1F630. Filed under nervous. Emoji 0.6.
  • Clapping hands U+1F44F. Filed under excited and yay. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face blowing a kiss U+1F618. The only other emoji filed under muah. Also filed under xoxo. Emoji 0.6.
  • Grinning face with sweat U+1F605. Filed under nervous and excited: the only other emoji under both. Emoji 0.6.
  • Party popper U+1F389. Filed under excited and tada. Emoji 0.6.
  • Partying face U+1F973. Filed under excited and celebrate. Emoji 11.0.
  • Star-struck U+1F929. Filed under excited. Emoji 5.0.
  • Worried face U+1F61F. Filed under nervous and butterflies. Emoji 1.0.

Text hearts 5

  • Black heart suit U+2665. A filled heart. Unicode notes it as valentine.
  • Floral heart U+2766. A leaf drawn as a heart. Unicode’s other name for it is Aldus leaf.
  • Heavy black heart, text style U+2764 U+FE0E. The character behind Red heart with the text selector, which asks for the black and white form.
  • Rotated heavy black heart bullet U+2765. A heart on its side, made as a bullet for lists.
  • White heart suit U+2661. An outline heart that is never an emoji.

Typed growing hearts 7

  • ((( ♥ ))) A heart with three rings round it.
  • (♡) ((♡)) (((♡))) One more ring of brackets each time.
  • . · • ♥ A dot that grows into a heart in four steps.
  • ♡ → ♥ An empty heart filling in.
  • ♡ ♥ ❤︎ Outline, filled, heavy: three text hearts in growing weight.
  • ♥ ♥♥ ♥♥♥ One heart, then two, then three.
  • <3 <33 <333 A heart that gains a key each time: two keys, then three, then four.

Heart drawings 3

  • Bigger typed heart Round at the top, seven lines tall.
  • Growing in three steps A typed <3, a small heart and a bigger one, standing on one line.
  • Small typed heart Three lines of slashes.

Growing heart lines 9

  • 143 💗 One, four, three: the letters in I love you.
  • growing on me 💗 For something that took a while.
  • heart rate: up 💗 CLDR files the emoji under pulse.
  • 💗 more every day The emoji first, then what it is doing.
  • muah 💗 A kiss sound, and one of the emoji’s CLDR words.
  • my heart is growing 💗 The plain statement, then the emoji.
  • nervous, the good kind 💗 CLDR files the emoji under nervous.
  • so excited 💗💗💗 CLDR files the emoji under excited. Three in a row.
  • xoxo 💗 A sign-off. CLDR files the emoji under xoxo, short for hugs and kisses.

Growing heart combos 13

  • Bigger every day Chart increasing, then growing heart.
  • Butterflies Butterfly, then growing heart.
  • Full heart Growing heart, three times.
  • Good news Growing heart, then party popper.
  • Grew overnight Crescent moon, then growing heart, then sun.
  • Growing on me Seedling, then growing heart.
  • Hug incoming People hugging, then growing heart.
  • Muah Face blowing a kiss, then growing heart.
  • Nerves, then news Anxious face with sweat, then growing heart, then party popper.
  • Pulse up Growing heart, then beating heart.
  • Sparkle, then grow Sparkling heart, then growing heart.
  • Warming up White heart, then pink heart, then growing heart.
  • Watered daily Droplet, then seedling, then growing heart.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); notes from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); text style from emoji-variation-sequences.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). Growing heart is U+1F497, Emoji 0.6, fifth in the emoji list’s heart group, after Sparkling heart (U+1F496) and before Beating heart (U+1F493), Revolving hearts and Two hearts. CLDR gives it 12 search words: 143, emotion, excited, growing, heart, heartpulse, ily, kisses, muah, nervous, pulse and xoxo. It is the only emoji filed under growing, the only heart under nervous, and one of two emoji under both nervous and excited (with Grinning face with sweat) and under muah (with Face blowing a kiss); CLDR files Beating heart, Two hearts and Pink heart under love, and not Growing heart. It has no text style in emoji-variation-sequences.txt. Pink heart is U+1FA77, Emoji 15.0. That 143 counts the letters of I love you, that ily is its initialism, that xoxo is short for hugs and kisses and that muah is a kiss sound are from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/143, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ily, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xoxo, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muah, CC BY-SA 4.0). The typed hearts, the drawings, the lines and the combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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