Yellow heart 💛

How to read it

💛 is U+1F49B YELLOW HEART, approved in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and, Emojipedia says, added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Emojipedia describes it as a yellow or gold heart, frequently used alongside other coloured hearts. Dictionary.com’s entry says it can convey love like any heart, but that its colour often gets it used for liking and friendship as opposed to romantic love, and for happiness; it ties this to yellow’s link with sunshine, positivity and hope. It is, Dictionary.com says, particularly useful among friends or family “where a red heart emoji may seem a bit much”, and it is also used for anything yellow, from team colours to dresses. Unicode’s keywords for it are cardiac, emotion, heart, ily, love and yellow. One early design went badly wrong: Emojipedia notes that Android 4.4 showed it as a pink, hairy heart.

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Snapchat’s yellow heart

Snapchat gives the yellow heart its own meaning beside a friend’s name. Its support page says it means the two are each other’s #1 Best Friend: each sent the most Snaps to the other. Dictionary.com dates the feature to 2015 and links it to yellow as the colour of friendship. After two weeks, according to both Snapchat and Emojipedia, the yellow heart becomes a red heart.

The “Adolescence” list

The Netflix drama Adolescence (2025) had a character say the yellow heart means “I’m interested. Are you interested?”. Emojipedia’s answer to that list is on the red heart page: the colours have no fixed code.