sparkling heart
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U+1F496 · Emoji 0.6 · Smileys & Emotion
Overview
Combining romance with a decorative flourish, Sparkling Heart shows a pink heart ringed by small glittering stars, encoded at U+1F496 in the heart subcategory of Smileys & Emotion. It was standardized in Unicode 6.0 and Emoji 0.6 in 2015. The added sparkles lend the heart an air of excitement and extra warmth, so the emoji conveys enthusiastic love, delight, or especially heartfelt affection. Its animated shimmer distinguishes it from the plain colored hearts, giving it a livelier, more effusive tone. Often accompanying affectionate greetings and expressions of joyful fondness, the single-codepoint character displays without a joiner or skin-tone modifier.
A pink heart with sparkles radiating from it. Used to show enthusiastic love, excitement, or extra-special affection.
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Encoding
| Unicode | U+1F496 |
| UTF-8 | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x96 |
| UTF-16 | 0xD83D 0xDC96 |
| HTML | 💖 |
| CSS | \1F496 |
| Python | \U0001F496 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F496} |
| Java | \uD83D\uDC96 |
Unicode Properties
From emoji-data.txt & emoji-variation-sequences.txt (Unicode 0.6)
| Extended_Pictographic | Yes |
| Emoji_Presentation | Yes |
| Emoji | Yes |
| emoji-data.txt | 1F496 ; Extended_Pictographic # 0.6 ๐ sparkling heart |
| Python regex | regex.match(r'\p{Extended_Pictographic}', '๐') |
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does the ๐ sparkling heart emoji mean?
Combining romance with a decorative flourish, Sparkling Heart shows a pink heart ringed by small glittering stars, encoded at U+1F496 in the heart subcategory of Smileys & Emotion. It was standardized in Unicode 6.0 and Emoji 0.6 in 2015. The added sparkles lend the heart an air of excitement and extra warmth, so the emoji conveys enthusiastic love, delight, or especially heartfelt affection. Its animated shimmer distinguishes it from the plain colored hearts, giving it a livelier, more effusive tone. Often accompanying affectionate greetings and expressions of joyful fondness, the single-codepoint character displays without a joiner or skin-tone modifier.
What is the Unicode codepoint of sparkling heart?
The sparkling heart emoji (๐) is 1F496, encoded in Unicode 0.6.
When was the sparkling heart emoji released?
sparkling heart was released in Emoji 0.6 (2015).