broken heart

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Information

The broken heart is the internet’s universal “it didn’t work out” stamp—deployment includes breakups, ghosted crushes, and minor tragedies like the barista forgetting the caramel drizzle. It thrives in memes and captions: sad reacts only, late-night lyric posting, and one dramatic 💔 for every chorus of your breakup playlist. Sports fans spam it when their team fumbles the bag; stans drop it when tour tickets vanish in 0.3 seconds; group chats use it for canceled plans, sold-out drops, and DoorDash orders that went MIA. It also swings sarcastic, paired with the skull or cry emojis to say “I’m fine, totally not spiraling,” or as flirty melodrama when someone leaves you on read for five minutes.

On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy, candy-apple red heart split straight down the middle by a jagged, lightning-bolt crack, with the two halves slightly separated. The shading gives a shiny 3D, plastic look—front-facing, clean edges, and a gap that screams “we are not okay,” easily recognizable even at tiny sizes. You’ll often see it in clusters or alongside the pleading face, broken chain, or rain cloud for full soap-opera energy. In short, it’s the go-to emoji for shattered feelings, performative anguish, and comedic heartbreak theater.

Definition

Love that has recently turned sour, "broke my heart".

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	112 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	:broken_heart:
Keywords

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Heart Symbols

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Abstract Concepts
Unicode Subcategory	Heart Symbols
Names & Annotations	BROKEN HEART Temporary Notes: breaking or broken heart
Symbol Information	U+1F494 proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-B0E

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	#138 'Heartbreak' 失恋 U+E6EE SJIS-F993 JIS-7530
KDDI	#265 ハート２(われている) 「haato２(wareteiru)」 U+E477 SJIS-F64F JIS-7530
Softbank	#34 #old35 ハートブレイク 「haatobureiku」 U+E023 SJIS-F963

Emoji Character Encoding Data

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)	e023
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E023
Decimal Code Point(s)	57379
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x80 0xA3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 80 A3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 200 243
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE023
UTF-16 Hex	e023
UTF-16 Dec	57379
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E023
UTF-32 Hex	E023
UTF-32 Dec	57379
Python Src	u"\uE023"
PHP Src	"\xee\x80\xa3"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE023"

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)	1f494
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F494
Decimal Code Point(s)	128148
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x94
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 92 94
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 222 224
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDC94
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddc94
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56468
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F494
UTF-32 Hex	01F494
UTF-32 Dec	128148
Python Src	u"\U0001F494"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x92\x94"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDC94"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)