The orange heart is the cozy middle child between mellow yellow and passionate red. It signals warmth, encouragement, and “I like you, but let’s not DTR just yet” energy. Think autumn leaves, sunset glow, and wholesome “you got this!” vibes.
People drop it for friendly affection, fandom color support, and seasonal content. In texting, it’s the classic supportive friend‑zone heart or a flirty‑but‑safe soft launch: more than a thumbs‑up, less than a rose‑petal confession. Sarcastically, it can read as a caution‑tape heart—sweet, but with a gentle emotional speed limit.
On social, it pairs beautifully with pumpkins, maple leaves, and black hearts for Halloween aesthetics, and shows up in pumpkin‑spice memes like clockwork. Sports stans spam it to rep orange teams and schools, from Syracuse to UT Austin, and Dutch fans flood timelines with a wall of orange during King’s Day or big matches. It also appears in activism posts for Wear Orange (gun violence awareness) and nods to the Pride flag’s original orange stripe for healing.
On Apple/iOS, the Orange Heart is a glossy, rounded icon with a tangerine‑to‑amber gradient, a bright highlight on the upper‑left lobe, and a soft shadow that gives it that smooth 3D‑candy look. No outline, clean curves, and a slightly chubby silhouette make it instantly recognizable in chats. It reads cheerful and cozy—like a tiny heated emoji blanket.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 119 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🧡 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🧡 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🧡 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🧡 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9e1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9E1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129505 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0xA1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 A1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 241 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDE1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edde1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56801 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9E1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9E1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129505 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9E1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\xa1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDE1" |
