U+1F494 · emoji since 2010
The broken heart is sadness made visible, a red heart cracked down the middle. It covers heartbreak, disappointment, sympathy, and the everyday tragedies like missing the last slice.
It can be deeply sincere under hard news or lightly dramatic when your show gets canceled. The size of the heartbreak is up to you, the emoji handles both.
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 Broken Heart emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the broken 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.
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