The revolving hearts emoji is 💞, U+1F49E, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode names it Revolving hearts. Only one other emoji is filed under revolving in CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words: Police car light.
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Seven words, and love is not one
CLDR gives it seven search words, fewer than the hearts listed either side of it: Beating heart has ten and Two hearts thirteen. Love, ily, kisses and xoxo are all missing. Adorbs is there, shared with three other emoji, among them the dog face in Puppy love.
Revolving, spinning or swirling
Spinning, rotating and swirling hearts all mean this emoji: CLDR lists none of those words for any heart, only revolving. Revolving heart emoji, in the singular, is the same character. The name is plural, and no emoji is named revolving heart.
Questions and answers
What does the revolving hearts emoji mean?
CLDR files it under anniversary and under adorbs, which Wiktionary records as a colloquial word for adorable. So it reads two ways: love that comes round again, or something very cute.
What is the difference between revolving hearts and two hearts?
The search words. Both are filed under hearts and anniversary. Two hearts adds love, loving, date and dating, and Revolving hearts adds revolving and adorbs. Unicode lists the two next to each other, Revolving hearts first.
How do you make revolving hearts with text?
From a heart and a turning arrow. ♡↻♡ is two outline hearts round Clockwise open circle arrow, and ↺♡↻ sets one heart between arrows that turn opposite ways. Both are plain text, with no emoji in them.
All 29 items
Revolving hearts 4
💓Beating heartU+1F493. Listed straight before Revolving hearts. Filed under beating, heartbeat and pulse. Emoji 0.6.
💟Heart decorationU+1F49F. The next code point up, and the last of a run of thirteen hearts. Emoji 0.6.
💞Revolving heartsU+1F49E. Filed under revolving, hearts, anniversary and adorbs: seven search words in all, and love is not one. Emoji 0.6.
💕Two heartsU+1F495. Listed straight after Revolving hearts. Shares hearts and anniversary with it, and adds love, loving, date and dating. Emoji 0.6.
Also revolving 5
🔃Clockwise vertical arrowsU+1F503. Filed under clockwise and reload. Emoji 0.6.
🔄Counterclockwise arrows buttonU+1F504. Filed under counterclockwise, refresh and again. Emoji 1.0.
🌀CycloneU+1F300. Filed under twister, hurricane and dizzy. Emoji 0.6.
🚨Police car lightU+1F6A8. The only other emoji filed under revolving. Its character name is Police cars revolving light. Emoji 0.6.
🔁Repeat buttonU+1F501. Filed under repeat and clockwise. Emoji 1.0.
Turning arrows 4
⟲Anticlockwise gapped circle arrowU+27F2 Anticlockwise gapped circle arrow. The gapped circle turning the other way.
↺Anticlockwise open circle arrowU+21BA Anticlockwise open circle arrow. The same arrow turning the other way.
⟳Clockwise gapped circle arrowU+27F3 Clockwise gapped circle arrow. A circle arrow with a gap, by its name.
↻Clockwise open circle arrowU+21BB Clockwise open circle arrow. Plain text, never an emoji.
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Typed revolving hearts 4
↺♡↻One heart between arrows that turn opposite ways
♡ ⟳ ♡ ⟳Heart, turn, heart, turn
♡↻♡Two outline hearts round a turning arrow
⟲♥︎⟳A filled heart inside two gapped circle arrows
Revolving lines 4
another lap round the sun 💞For an anniversary, another CLDR word of the emoji
round and round 💞What revolving means
totally adorbs 💞Adorbs is one of the emoji’s CLDR words: a colloquial clipping of adorable
you make my head spin 💞A compliment
Revolving combos 8
🎡💞Big wheelFerris wheel, then revolving hearts.
🎠💞CarouselCarousel horse, then revolving hearts.
🔄💞Full circleCounterclockwise arrows button, then revolving hearts.
💫💞Head in a spinDizzy, then revolving hearts.
🪐💞In orbitRinged planet, then revolving hearts.
🌍💞Makes the world go roundGlobe showing Europe-Africa, then revolving hearts.
🔁💞On repeatRepeat button, then revolving hearts.
🐶💞Puppy loveDog face, then revolving hearts. Dog face is filed under adorbs too, and under puppy.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-16 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points, order 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). Revolving hearts is U+1F49E, Emoji 0.6, seventh in the list's heart group, after Beating heart and before Two hearts; by code point it stands between Heart with ribbon (U+1F49D) and Heart decoration (U+1F49F), the last of a run of thirteen hearts from U+1F493. CLDR gives it seven search words: 143, adorbs, anniversary, emotion, heart, hearts and revolving; Beating heart has ten and Two hearts thirteen. Love, ily, kisses and xoxo are not among them. Two emoji are filed under revolving (Police car light and Revolving hearts) and two characters have REVOLVING in their names (U+1F49E and U+1F6A8 POLICE CARS REVOLVING LIGHT). Four emoji are filed under adorbs: Dog face, Face blowing a kiss, Heart with arrow and Revolving hearts. No emoji of the heart group is filed under spin, spinning, rotate, rotating, swirl, swirling, orbit or turning. Three hearts are filed under anniversary: Heart with ribbon, Revolving hearts and Two hearts. U+21BA, U+21BB, U+27F2 and U+27F3 have no line in the emoji list. That adorbs is a colloquial clipping of adorable is from Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adorbs, CC BY-SA 4.0). The typed hearts, the lines and the combos are this site's own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the typed hearts, the lines 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). Word meanings from Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.