💔️ Broken heart emoji
HTML
💔
Unicode
U+1F494
What is 💔️ called?
💔️ is called the Broken heart emoji.
Commonly called the heartbreak emoji, cracked heart, or shattered heart. “Broken love” is sometimes used, but 💔 can express grief and disappointment well beyond romance.
What does 💔️ mean?
💔 represents heartbreak, emotional pain, separation, grief, disappointment, or a bond that feels damaged. It can describe romantic breakups, bereavement, friendship conflict, or sympathy for somebody else’s loss.
Not every use means a relationship has ended; the crack can stand for any deeply painful event. Tone ranges from sincere mourning to exaggerated disappointment over something minor.
Other meanings
A breakup, unrequited love, grief, betrayal, loneliness, shattered hopes, bad news, or a deliberately dramatic “I am devastated.”
Example Usage
I am so sorry for your loss 💔
They cancelled the tour before our date 💔
More details
Officially named broken heart. Its code point is U+1F494, and this project records it from Emoji 1.0. ❤️🩹 Mending heart continues the visual idea by adding a bandage for recovery.
Visual description
A red or pink heart split by a jagged crack running vertically through its centre.
Some platforms show two visibly separated halves while others keep the heart joined around a dark fissure. The break is structural, unlike the dot beneath ❣️ Heart exclamation.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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