Solid and yellow, the yellow heart emoji stands for platonic love, close friendship, warmth, and loyalty rather than romance. It's commonly sent between friends and family as a sign of a strong, non-romantic bond, and on Snapchat, it also marks each other's #1 best friend.
What 💛 means
The 💛 Yellow Heart emoji signifies a deep sense of friendship, closeness and mutual respect and love. Although this emoji does denote love, it isn't the romantic kind of love, nor the painful friend zone kind of love. It's the kind of love that's shared between close friends and family too.
How and when to use it
- Its Friendship Day!! Send this emoji to all those amazing people you call friends in your life.
- You don't need a friendship day to remind you of your friends. Go on, send this emoji to them even on other days, when you're particularly feeling grateful and in a great mood.
- Send this emoji to spread some sunshine and love.
- It can also be used to show care, warmth, gratitude, and appreciation.
- This emoji is a great one if you're talking to someone in a close circle, but they aren't close to you (for example, a relative you're not that close to, but is still a part of your family).
- You can also send this emoji while wishing someone for their birthday, anniversary, or those special days (like Mother's Day, Father's Day, Children's Day, etc).
Other Names
- 💛 Friendship
- 💛 Strength
- 💛 Care
- 💛 Warmth
- 💛 Wishes
- 💛 Family
- 💛 Home
- 💛 Best Friend
- 💛 BFF
- 💛 Gratitude
- 💛 Appreciation
💛 in real conversations
What does 💛 mean from a girl?
Best-friend energy — sunny, platonic, loyal. On Snapchat it's literal: a yellow heart next to a name means you're each other's number-one best friends.
What does 💛 mean from a guy?
Genuine platonic warmth — the heart for friends and family that never risks being misread. Cheerful, not flirty.
What does 💛 mean in texting?
Friendship's official heart. Happiness, loyalty and sunshine — the one heart you can send to almost anyone without a follow-up conversation.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › heart
- Codepoints
U+1F49B- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:yellow_heart:- Keywords
- 143, cardiac, emotion, heart, ily, love, yellow
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 — 💛 Yellow Heart or 🙎♂️ Man Pouting?
Runs with a crowd
💛 keeps company in heart emojis and yellow emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.