Green heart đź’š
A green heart. Besides affection, people use it for things that are green: nature and environmental causes, Ireland and St Patrick’s Day, and teams and fan groups whose colour is green.
How to read it
💚 is U+1F49A GREEN HEART, approved in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015, according to Emojipedia. Dictionary.com’s entry says it is used for love, support, close bonds and admiration for things related to green, from nature and plants to school and team colours, and also for supporting the environment and for Ireland and Irish culture. Emojipedia’s David Doochin gives the same pair, environmental movements and St Patrick’s Day, and adds Charli XCX’s “Brat”. Unicode’s keywords for it are emotion, green, heart, ily, love and romantic. Older Android phones drew something quite different: Emojipedia notes an orange and pink heart with beads of sweat.
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How people use an emoji changes quickly. These pages give each emoji’s Unicode name and the uses recorded by the sources cited, as of September 2026, and are reviewed yearly.
Fans and flags
Emojipedia records 💚 as frequently used on X (formerly Twitter) for the Korean boy band NCT, much as the purple heart is used for BTS. One of Dictionary.com’s examples is a Celtic football fan. Unicode’s proposals for the newest hearts note that people build flags out of hearts where no flag emoji exists, and give ❤🖤💚 for the Pan-African flag.
Read next
- Next in Emoji meaningsBlue heart 💙A blue heart. It means affection without much romance, which is why brands like it, and it carries causes whose colour is blue, such as support for the UK’s NHS and autism awareness campaigns.
- The same shape in US mint marksO mint markO is the mint mark of the New Orleans Mint, on gold and silver coins struck there from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909.
More emoji meanings
The same shape elsewhere
Browse symbols drawn with curves and waves.
Sources
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs, Range: 1F300–1F5FF (code chart), The Unicode Standard, Unicode Consortium, U+1F49A
- Emoji List, v18.0, Unicode emoji charts (CLDR short names and English keywords), read September 2026, Unicode Consortium, U+1F49A
- Green Heart Emoji Meaning, Emojipedia emoji page, read October 2026, Emojipedia, Meaning
- đź’š Green Heart emoji, Dictionary.com Emoji Dictionary, 6 November 2020, Dictionary.com, What does / Who uses
- What Does The 🤍 White Heart Emoji Mean?, David Doochin, Emojipedia blog, 14 May 2025, Emojipedia, Heart emoji repurposing
- Netflix's "Adolescence", Emoji Codes & Emoji Repurposing, Keith Broni, Emojipedia blog, 31 March 2025, Emojipedia, What About the Colored Heart Emojis?
- Gray Heart Unicode Emoji Proposal, Unicode document L2/21-201 (Jennifer Daniel), 7 November 2019, updated 6 May 2021, Unicode Consortium document register, B.2 Identity Representation
Last reviewed October 8, 2026 by Rory Hansen. How we research
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