The sparkling heart emoji is π, U+1F496, in Unicodeβs list since Emoji 0.6, its first version. Its name is Sparkling heart, and it is the only heart filed under sparkle in CLDR, Unicodeβs list of search words.
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Told apart from its neighbours
Unicode lists it fourth in its heart group, between Heart with ribbon and Growing heart, and Growing heart is the next code point up, U+1F497. The search words part the three: ribbon and valentine, then sparkle and sparkling, then growing and nervous. Ring is the only other emoji filed under sparkling.
Sparkly, sparkle or sparkling
Sparkly heart emoji and heart sparkling emoji are this one character: no other emoji has both heart and sparkle in its name. Five Unicode characters are named for sparkling, and Heavy sparkle is the one that is never an emoji, so it stays plain text wherever it lands.
Questions and answers
What does the sparkling heart emoji mean?
Unicode gives it a name and no note, so its CLDR search words are the guide: excited, kisses and xoxo, then good, morning and night. No other heart has those last three, which makes it the heart for a good morning or good night message.
Is there a pink sparkling heart emoji?
Unicode has one sparkling heart, π, so a pink sparkling heart emoji can only be this one; the name itself sets no colour. For pink by name, Pink sparkle heart pairs Pink heart, the emoji named for the colour, with Sparkles.
How do I copy and paste the sparkle heart emoji?
Sparkle heart emoji copy and paste takes one press: Copy puts π on the clipboard. It is a single character with no text style, so in a field that refuses emoji use β§β‘β§ or the keyboard-only *<3* instead.
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Sparkling heart 4
πGrowing heartU+1F497. Listed straight after Sparkling heart and one code point higher. Filed under growing and nervous. Emoji 0.6.
πHeart with ribbonU+1F49D. Listed straight before Sparkling heart. Filed under ribbon and valentine. Emoji 0.6.
ππSparkling pairSparkling heart, then ring. The two emoji CLDR files under sparkling.
ππStarry nightNight with stars, then sparkling heart. Night with stars is filed under night too.
π πUp at sunriseSunrise, then sparkling heart. Sunrise is filed under morning too.
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). Sparkling heart is U+1F496, Emoji 0.6, the lowest version label in the list, fourth in the list's heart group, after Heart with ribbon and before Growing heart (U+1F497). CLDR gives it 12 search words: 143, emotion, excited, good, heart, ily, kisses, morning, night, sparkle, sparkling and xoxo. Of the 25 emoji in the heart group it is the only one filed under sparkle, sparkling, good, morning or night; love and pink are not among its words. Five emoji are filed under sparkle (Sparkles, Sparkle, Glowing star, Sparkler and Sparkling heart) and two under sparkling (Ring and Sparkling heart); CLDR lists the asterisk among the search words of Sparkles and of Sparkle. Five characters have a name that holds SPARKL: U+2728 Sparkles, U+2747 Sparkle, U+2748 Heavy sparkle, U+1F387 Firework sparkler and U+1F496 Sparkling heart; U+2748 has no line in the emoji list and no entry in emoji-variation-sequences.txt, and U+1F496 has no text style there. Pink heart is U+1FA77, Emoji 15.0, filed under pink. No other emoji has both heart and sparkle in its name. 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).