U+1F49C "💜" Purple Heart Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
💜
U+1F49C "💜" Purple Heart is a versatile and widely recognized symbol in digital communication, representing love, compassion, and deep affection, often with a nuance of platonic or unconditional support rather than the romantic intensity of a red heart. Its vibrant purple color, historically associated with royalty, creativity, and spirituality, allows it to convey admiration, pride, or solidarity for specific causes, such as LGBTQ+ awareness or military service (distinct from the physical Purple Heart medal). Commonly used in texting and social media, the emoji can express gratitude, sympathy, or a soft, personalized form of endearment, making it a gentle yet powerful tool for emotional expression across various contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F49C |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Purple 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F49C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc9c |