A red heart with a bandage stuck across it — the mending heart emoji is for love, or a person, on the way to okay. It's used after heartbreak, loss, or hard times, marking recovery in progress rather than a wound that's freshly opened or fully healed.
What ❤️🩹 means
A red heart with two bandages wrapped around the topmost half of the heart. This emoji refers to a broken heart that's on the path of healing and goodness.
The ❤️🩹 Mending Heart emoji signifies healing, care, nurturing, post heartbreak recovery, getting well, and an overall sense of improvement. It can also suggest a recently healed heart that's too fragile to hurt again.
How and when to use it
- If you recently got out of a relationship; toxic or not, you can use ❤️🩹 either while texting a close one or while sharing a social media story or post about your journey towards healing.
- You can also use ❤️🩹 while telling someone that things will get better with a relationship they're struggling with, "Its alright. Distance from all that harms your heart ❤️🩹".
- If you're generally posting about heartbreak (not necessarily romantic relationships) on your social media handle, you can use ❤️🩹 in such contexts.
- If someone fixed back all your pieces, you can use ❤️🩹 while texting them or someone close about. For instance, "Everything happens for a reason, and now I see why she had to come into my life ❤️🩹".
- If someone's asking you for a relationship when you're still getting over a painful breakup, you can use ❤️🩹 to indicate you're still healing and are not ready for a commitment yet.
Other Names
- ❤️🩹 Healing Heart
- ❤️🩹 Improving Heart
- ❤️🩹 Recovery
- ❤️🩹 Fixing the Pieces Back Together
- ❤️🩹 Fix You
- ❤️🩹 Heart With a Bandage
- ❤️🩹 Unbroken Heart
❤️🩹 in real conversations
What does ❤️🩹 mean from a girl?
Healing, not fresh pain — getting through a breakup, grief, or a hard stretch and coming out the other side okay. "Feeling more like myself again ❤️🩹" marks real progress, not a wound still raw.
What does ❤️🩹 mean from a guy?
The same recovery-in-progress message, often sent about moving on from something specific — a breakup, losing a friendship, a rough year. It's a quiet "I'm doing better," not a request for sympathy.
Is ❤️🩹 different from 💔?
Yes — 💔 is the moment something breaks; ❤️🩹 is everything that happens after, the bandage stuck over the crack while it heals. One's the injury, the other's the recovery.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › heart
- Codepoints
U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79- Emoji version
- Emoji 13.1
- Shortcodes
:mending_heart:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- healthier, heart, improving, mending, recovering, recuperating, well
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
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.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ❤️🩹 Mending Heart or 🤾♀️ Woman Playing Handball?
Runs with a crowd
❤️🩹 keeps company in heart emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.