Plain hearts don't cover a crush this shiny: the sparkling heart emoji is a sparkle-ringed pink heart for love that feels pure, magical, brand new. It's often used for a fresh crush, an especially sweet moment, or to add a glittery, heightened emphasis to a message of love.
What 💖 means
A pink heart symbol with cartoony sparkles on the lower and upper diagonal sides of the heart. The colors and the number of sparkles used in this emoji can vary across different platforms.
The 💖 Sparkling Heart emoji is a shining and glittery heart symbolizing a sense of being pure, speckless, new, and perfectly imperfect. This emoji can also suggest magic and surreality.
How and when to use it
- If something new and adorable happened, send this emoji in that context.
- You can also send this emoji while telling someone close about something brand new that you recently bought; a cute dress, glasses, anything.
- It can be used to refer to a feeling of having a whole new and happy outlook to anything, or life itself.
- This emoji may also be incorporated into conversations about 'being pure' and flawless, like while saying something like "I need no makeup y'all, I'm flawless as I am 💖".
Other Names
- 💖 Flawless
- 💖 Sparkly
- 💖 Glittery
- 💖 Pure
- 💖 New
- 💖 Fresh
- 💖 Magical
- 💖 Blissful
- 💖 Surreal
- 💖 Blessed
💖 in real conversations
What does 💖 mean from a girl?
Sweet, sparkly affection — warmer and more excitable than a plain ❤️, often used for close friends, family, or a crush without the full weight of "I love you." It's affection with glitter on it.
What does 💖 mean in texting?
Genuine fondness with an extra bit of sparkle — gratitude, adoration, or "you're precious to me" energy. It leans platonic and romantic equally, unlike some of the more loaded heart colors.
What's the difference between 💖 and ❤️?
❤️ is a flat statement of love; 💖 adds motion and shine, which reads as more excited or gushing. Sending 💖 to a friend feels natural in a way a plain ❤️ sometimes doesn't.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › heart
- Codepoints
U+1F496- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:sparkling_heart:- Keywords
- 143, emotion, excited, good, heart, ily, kisses, morning, night, sparkle, sparkling, 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 — 💖 Sparkling Heart or 🚶♂️➡️ Man Walking: Facing Right?
Runs with a crowd
💖 keeps company in cute emojis and heart emojis and love emojis and pink emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.