The beating heart is the drama-queen cousin of the classic red heart—same feelings, but with a visible “thump-thump” energy. It screams crush-mode, adrenaline, or that moment when your fave drops a surprise comeback and you forget how to breathe. People use it flirtatiously (“you texted back and now my pulse is doing parkour”), supportively (“so proud of you I’m vibrating”), or ironically (“after three espressos my heart is live-streaming”). It also moonlights in memes for jump-scare reactions, gym PR brags, and the universal “I’m not okay but in a fun way.”
On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy pink heart with small motion lines radiating off the side, like a comic-book sound effect you can practically hear. Those little lines are the giveaway: unlike the solid ❤️, this one visually pulses; unlike 💗 (growing heart), it doesn’t stack hearts—just beats. You’ll spot it in stan replies, thirst tweets, and texts that read like a rom-com montage, often paired with all-caps shrieking and ten exclamation marks. Perfect for swoons, near-faints, and any moment your heart says “bestie, this is a lot.”
Pulsating heart emoji. "I can hear your heart beat." If that isn't the definition of love then I don't know what is. What is love! This emoji icon was the replacement for "Sparkling Heart" in iOS 5 but is still available and accessible like many others!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 407 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 | :heartbeat: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Heart Symbols |
| Unicode Category | Abstract Concepts |
| Unicode Subcategory | Heart Symbols |
| Names & Annotations | BEATING HEART Temporary Notes: pulsating heart |
| Symbol Information | U+1F493 proposed |
| Proposal Identifier | e-B0D |
| 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 | #35 #old309 ハート(ぴかぴかひかる) 「haato(pikapikahikaru)」 U+E327 SJIS-F9C7 |
| 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) | e327 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E327 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 58151 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x8C 0xA7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 8C A7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 214 247 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE327 |
| UTF-16 Hex | e327 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 58151 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E327 |
| UTF-32 Hex | E327 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 58151 |
| Python Src | u"\uE327" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x8c\xa7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE327" |
| 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) | 1f493 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F493 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128147 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x93 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 93 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 223 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC93 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc93 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56467 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F493 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F493 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128147 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F493" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x93" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC93" |
| 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 | feb0d |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+E6ED | U+EB75 | U+FEB0D |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 59117 | 60277 | 1043213 |
| UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xEE 0x9B 0xAD | 0xEE 0xAD 0xB5 | 0xF3 0xBE 0xAC 0x8D |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | EE 9B AD | EE AD B5 | F3 BE AC 8D |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 356 233 255 | 356 255 265 | 363 276 254 215 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE6ED | 0xEB75 | 0xDBBA 0xDF0D |
| UTF-16 Hex | e6ed | eb75 | dbbadf0d |
| UTF-16 Dec | 59117 | 60277 | 56250 57101 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000E6ED | 0x0000EB75 | 0x000FEB0D |
| UTF-32 Hex | E6ED | EB75 | 0FEB0D |
| UTF-32 Dec | 59117 | 60277 | 1043213 |
| Python Src | u"\uE6ED" | u"\uEB75" | u"\U000FEB0D" |
| PHP Src | "\xee\x9b\xad" | "\xee\xad\xb5" | "\xf3\xbe\xac\x8d" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uE6ED" | "\uEB75" | "\uDBBA\uDF0D" |
