The growing heart is the “my feelings just leveled up” button: affection expanding, warmth intensifying, and that extra-adorable rush when a puppy yawns or your friend nails a life milestone. It’s the go-to for soft, gushy vibes—often paired with the pleading face 🥺 for maximum uwu energy—and a favorite in stan culture captions when your bias breathes and your soul ascends. People use it flirty-but-wholesome, proud-parent style (“look at you!”), or even playfully sarcastic when pretending to be moved (“wow, my heart… grew… so much”). Bonus meme credit to The Grinch: “my heart grew three sizes” is basically this emoji in text form.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a glossy hot‑pink heart front and center, with two lighter pink, concentric heart layers behind it, like ripples of emotion pushing outward—no face, no sparkles, just pure expansion. The styling is smooth and slightly 3D with a gentle top-left highlight and soft shading, all shown straight-on so the stacking effect reads instantly. It screams “feelings: unlocked,” perfect for celebrating glow-ups, comfort-show binges, and those wholesome posts that make your serotonin do parkour.
The love is growing in this one and the heart is pink but we love Apple Computer none the less. iEmoji old definition: Love that is cute is expressed.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 117 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :heartpulse: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Pink Growing Heart |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Heart Symbols |
| Unicode Category | Abstract Concepts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Heart Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | GROWING HEART Temporary Notes: heart growing bigger |
| Symbol Information | U+1F497 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-B11 |
| DoCoMo | #137 'Fluttering heart' 揺れるハート 「揺reruhaato」 U+E6ED SJIS-F992 JIS-7B5A |
| KDDI | #803 ドキドキしているハート 「dokidokishiteiruhaato」 U+EB75 SJIS-F479 JIS-7B5A |
| Softbank | #36 #old310 ハート(ドキドキ) 「haato(dokidoki)」 U+E328 SJIS-F9C8 |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 4 Code |
|---|---|
| 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) | e328 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E328 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58152 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x8C 0xA8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 8C A8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 214 250 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE328 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e328 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58152 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E328 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E328 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58152 |
| Python Src | u"\uE328" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x8c\xa8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE328" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - 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) | 1f497 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F497 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128151 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x97 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 97 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 227 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC97 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc97 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56471 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F497 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F497 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128151 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F497" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x97" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC97" |
| Emoji Encoding | DoCoMo | KDDI | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | | | |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |||
| Decimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾬑 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity |  |  | 󾬑 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | e6ed | eb75 | feb11 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E6ED | U+EB75 | U+FEB11 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59117 | 60277 | 1043217 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9B 0xAD | 0xEE 0xAD 0xB5 | 0xF3 0xBE 0xAC 0x91 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9B AD | EE AD B5 | F3 BE AC 91 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 233 255 | 356 255 265 | 363 276 254 221 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE6ED | 0xEB75 | 0xDBBA 0xDF11 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e6ed | eb75 | dbbadf11 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59117 | 60277 | 56250 57105 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E6ED | 0x0000EB75 | 0x000FEB11 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E6ED | EB75 | 0FEB11 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59117 | 60277 | 1043217 |
| Python Src | u"\uE6ED" | u"\uEB75" | u"\U000FEB11" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9b\xad" | "\xee\xad\xb5" | "\xf3\xbe\xac\x91" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE6ED" | "\uEB75" | "\uDBBA\uDF11" |
