U+1F493 · emoji since 2010
The beating heart has little lines around it to show it pulsing. It stands for a heart that races, excitement, butterflies, being alive with feeling.
People use it for crushes, big news, and anything that gets the pulse going. Love with a heartbeat.
In texting, 💓 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 💓 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Beating Heart emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the beating heart emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 💓 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.