heart exclamation Emoji

The heart exclamation emoji is used to add emotional tone or reaction to a message — face and emotion emoji like this are consistently among the most-used emoji worldwide because they let a short message carry the nuance of tone of voice or facial expression that plain text lacks.

Category context: The Smileys & Emotion category covers facial expressions and emotional reactions — the most frequently used emoji group in everyday messaging, since a single face can convey tone that plain text often misses.

Cataloged under Heart within the Smileys & Emotion category, heart exclamation is the 165th of 171 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 1 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+2763.

💡 Good to know: This emoji renders differently across platforms (Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft each have their own art style) — the shape, color, and exact expression can vary noticeably between devices.