💔 Meaning – Broken Heart Emoji

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The broken heart emoji stands for love that has recently turned sour hence the expression "broke my heart" meaning "You've hurt me terribly!". One can express suffering, discontent or distrust with this emoji. Depending on context, Broken Heart Emoji can have romantic connotations or not, as it can also be applied when referring to a situation or event, not only a person.

The Broken Heart Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Broken Heart Symbol. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Heartbroken Emoji.

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Broken Heart Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F494
Unicode name: Broken Heart
Category: Smileys & People / Emotions
Keywords: heart
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F494
Decimal HTML Entity: 💔
Hex HTML Entity: 💔
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDC94
Wikipedia: n/a
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

Smiling Cat Face with Heart-Eyes

Couple with Heart: Woman, Woman

Couple with Heart: Woman, Man

Couple with Heart: Man, Man

🌐 Broken Heart Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	gebrochenes Herz	Schmerz, Trennung
Français	cœur brisé	cœur
Русский	разбитое сердце	разбитое, разочарование, сердце, части
Español	corazón roto	corazón, emoción, partido, roto
Italiano	cuore infranto	cuore, emozione, infranto, spezzato
Português	coração partido	coração, decepção amorosa, emoção, rompimento
Polski	złamane serce	pęknięte, serce

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How to type Broken Heart Emoji

There are number of methods to type Broken Heart Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 💔 emoji

It's very easy to get Broken Heart Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 💔 meaning and look at 💔 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

💔 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.