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💔 Broken heart

break broken crushed emotion heart heartbroken lonely sad

Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subcategory: Hearts
Shortcode
Unicode version: 6.0 (2010)
Emoji version: 0.6 (2010)
Status: fully-qualified

What the 💔 emoji means

A red heart split down the middle. A breakup in the narrow sense, and any loss that hurts in the wider one.

Rarely literal about romance any more: people use it for a lost pet, a closed café, a team that went down. Sincere and ironic uses live side by side.

Chat examples

Will your readers see 💔

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

Apple always there
Google always there
Microsoft always there
Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 💔 emoji is used

The 💔 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how broken heart is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

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💔 Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	broken heart
Русский	разбитое сердце
Deutsch	gebrochenes Herz
Español	corazón roto
Français	cœur brisé
Polski	złamane serce
Dansk	knust hjerte
Українська	розбите серце
Português	coração partido

Unicode CLDR 48

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