U+1F494 "💔" Broken Heart Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1F494 "💔" Broken Heart is a graphical symbol representing a red heart that appears to be split, cracked, or shattered in a jagged line down its center, conveying a sense of emotional pain, heartbreak, or loss. It is widely used in digital communication to express sadness, rejection, grief, or the end of a romantic relationship. As part of the Emoji 1.0 standard introduced in 2015, this character belongs to the "Smileys & Emotion" category and is commonly found in text messaging, social media, and online forums. Its visual design evokes the universal metaphor of a broken heart, making it an intuitive and powerful tool for conveying complex negative emotions in a concise, visual form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F494 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Broken Heart |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 💔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 💔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F494 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc94 |