Emojion

๐Ÿ’— growing heart

Meaning

A heart visually swelling to express any emotion that feels like it's expanding โ€” romantic flutters, deepening love, overwhelming joy, or warm gratitude. Used broadly for any feeling that makes your heart grow.

Keywords: 143, emotion, excited, growing, heart, heartpulse, ily, kisses, muah, nervous, pulse, xoxo

How it's used around the world

  • Japan

    In Japan, this emoji strongly evokes the 'dokidoki' (pounding heart) visual trope from shoujo manga, so it skews toward romantic flutters and crush feelings. The Japanese CLDR keyword ใจใใ‚ใ (tokimeki) directly reflects this cultural framing.

๐Ÿ’ก Did you know?

๐Ÿ’— was standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is said to trace its origins to Japanese mobile carrier emoji sets (like SoftBank) โ€” one of the earliest emoji to be globally adopted.

๐Ÿ’ก Did you know?

I'm so nervous about tomorrow's presentation ๐Ÿ’—
You've got this! Rooting for you ๐Ÿ’—

๐Ÿ’—'s official CLDR keywords include both 'excited' and 'nervous' โ€” the same emoji can express anxious anticipation and warm encouragement, depending on context.

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