U+1F497 "💗" Growing Heart Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
💗
U+1F497 "💗" Growing Heart is a pictorial representation of a pink or red heart with motion lines or small hearts emanating outward, symbolizing an expanding, intensifying affection or excitement. It is commonly used in digital communication to express a love that is increasing, a surge of warm feelings, or the "bursting" sensation of being deeply enamored. Unlike a static heart emoji, this variant conveys a sense of growth or overflow, making it popular for romantic messages, expressions of gratitude, or reactions to uplifting news. Its design often features a larger central heart with smaller hearts surrounding it, visually mimicking the idea of love spreading or being amplified.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F497 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Growing 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F497 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc97 |