Three nested hearts that get bigger from the center out — the growing heart emoji captures a feeling that's expanding in real time. It's used when affection is building, love is deepening, or someone's just overwhelmed with warm, swelling feelings for a person, pet, or moment.
What 💗 means
A pink heart with layering outlines, giving a rippling kind of an effect to the heart. The color and the number of ripples would differ across different platforms.
The 💗 Growing Heart emoji signifies a sense of increasing love, appreciation, warmth, gratitude, affection and care. It can also suggest feelings of growing fondness and intimacy.
How and when to use it
- If you're love and care for someone you're texting is increasing over the days, replace the same old plain hearts with this emoji.
- You can also send this emoji to explain to someone close about your increasing fondness for something or someone.
- This emoji can also be used to show a sense of appreciation, gratitude, and warmth to your close ones.
- If your infatuation towards someone cute is exponentially adding up each day, send this emoji to a trusted friend while telling him/her about it.
Other Names
- 💗 Increasing Affection
- 💗 Love
- 💗 Gratitude
- 💗 Multiple Hearts
- 💗 Triple Hearts
- 💗 Warmth
- 💗 Crush
- 💗 Infatuation
💗 in real conversations
What does 💗 mean from a girl?
Affection that's building, not sitting still — the pulsing heart reads as feelings getting stronger, whether that's falling harder for a crush or a friendship growing closer by the day. It's warmer and more emotionally loaded than a plain ❤️.
What does 💗 mean in texting?
Growing love or growing gratitude. The heart animates through three sizes on some platforms, like a heartbeat swelling — which is exactly the feeling it's meant to capture: something increasing, not just sitting there present.
What's the difference between 💗 and ❤️?
❤️ is a flat, steady statement of love; 💗 has motion built into the design, so it reads as feelings actively growing or intensifying. Sending 💗 instead signals the emotion is still building, not already settled.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › heart
- Codepoints
U+1F497- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:heartpulse::growing_heart:Discord- Keywords
- 143, emotion, excited, growing, heart, heartpulse, ily, kisses, muah, nervous, pulse, xoxo
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 💗 Growing Heart or 🐦⬛ Black Bird?
Runs with a crowd
💗 keeps company in cute emojis and heart emojis and pink emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.