Emojion๐ smiling face with heart-eyes
Meaning
Covers everything from romantic love to food obsession โ any intense 'I love this' feeling. Inspired by the heart-eyes look in cartoons and anime, it's perfect for expressing overwhelming excitement or infatuation.
Keywords: 143, bae, eye, face, feels, heart-eyes, hearts, ily, kisses, love, romance, romantic, smile, xoxo
๐ก Did you know?
Officially added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010, but the heart-eyes look is much older โ classic early-20th-century Western cartoons used it for the 'totally smitten' face long before emoji existed. Japanese carrier emoji sets reportedly had a version as far back as 1999.
๐ก Did you know?
In the West, ๐ is casually thrown at friends, food, and movies alike โ but for someone who reads heart-eyes as seriously romantic, it can land as an unexpected confession. Especially in Japan, where heart emojis skew strongly romantic, the same message can hit very differently.
How it's used around the world
Japan
In Japan, heart emojis are seen as nearly exclusively romantic, so ๐ tends to appear in love contexts rather than for food or scenery. Unlike many other countries where heart-based emoji rank in the top 5, Japan's most-used list reportedly contains none.
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