White heart 🤍
A white heart. Dictionary.com gives it for affection and for anything white; Emojipedia also records it in mourning someone who has died, and at weddings.
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How to read it
🤍 is U+1F90D WHITE HEART. It arrived with the brown heart in Unicode 12.0, released on 5 March 2019, and in Emoji 12.0; Unicode’s emoji tables trace both to the same 2018 proposal on emoji colours (L2/18-141). Dictionary.com notes that most platforms draw it whitish grey, several with an outline, so that it stays visible on screen. Its entry gives love, support, close bonds and admiration, and things that are white, such as snowy days or fluffy white puppies. Emojipedia also records it in memorials and tributes to someone who has died, and, since white is the colour of bridal dresses, beside wedding emoji; Dictionary.com’s 2020 entry mentions neither use. Unicode’s keywords for it are only heart and white, besides the number 143.
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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.
Look-alikes
♡ U+2661 WHITE HEART SUIT is an outlined playing-card heart that is not meant to appear as an emoji, Emojipedia notes. 🩶 grey heart, added in 2022, is the grey one; 🤍 is drawn white or whitish grey. 🤍❤🤍, white, red, white, is a sequence Unicode’s 2021 heart paper gives for support of Belarus.
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- Next in Emoji meaningsBrown heart 🤎A brown heart. Besides affection, it is used for racial identity and in support of Black and brown people, often beside a black heart 🖤 and a dark-skinned raised fist ✊🏾.
- The same shape in Navy ranksMaster chief petty officer of the Navy (E-9)The master chief petty officer of the Navy (MCPON) is the Navy’s most senior enlisted sailor, pay grade E-9. The collar insignia is the gold fouled anchor with USN and three silver stars above it.
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The same shape elsewhere
Browse symbols drawn with curves and waves.
Sources
- Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs, Range: 1F900–1F9FF (code chart), The Unicode Standard, Unicode Consortium, U+1F90D
- Emoji List, v18.0, Unicode emoji charts (CLDR short names and English keywords), read September 2026, Unicode Consortium, U+1F90D
- emoji-data.txt, Emoji Data for UTS #51, version 18.0.0, 30 January 2026, Unicode Consortium, 1F90D..1F90F
- Emoji Recently Added, v12.0, Unicode emoji charts, Unicode Consortium, Smileys & Emotion
- Unicode 12.0.0, The Unicode Standard, version 12.0.0, Unicode Consortium, Version 12.0.0
- White Heart Emoji Meaning, Emojipedia emoji page, read October 2026, Emojipedia, Meaning
- 🤍 White Heart emoji, Dictionary.com Emoji Dictionary, 4 November 2020, Dictionary.com, What does / Where does / Who uses
- What Does The 🤍 White Heart Emoji Mean?, David Doochin, Emojipedia blog, 14 May 2025, Emojipedia, Meaning of the white heart emoji
- Miscellaneous Symbols, Range: 2600–26FF (code chart), The Unicode Standard, Unicode Consortium, U+2661
- Examining Emoji Color Spaces: A Strategy for Improving the Coverage of Heart Emoji, Unicode document L2/21-075 (Jennifer Daniel for the Emoji Subcommittee), 15 November 2020, updated 11 April 2021, Unicode Consortium document register, I. Background
- Document Register 2018, Unicode Technical Committee document register, Unicode Consortium, L2/18-141
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