What does a white heart mean?
A white heart 🤍 usually means pure, gentle love rather than romance. People send it to friends and family, use it to show support, and post it under sad news as a quiet sign of sympathy or remembrance. It is also part of the clean, minimal "white aesthetic" and of black-and-white combos like 🖤🤍.
Context decides the tone. 🤍 after "thank you" reads as warm and sincere, while 🤍 under a memorial post reads as condolence. If you mean romantic love, a red ❤︎ is clearer.
White heart emoji vs ♡
The emoji 🤍 (WHITE HEART, U+1F90D) arrived in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, together with the brown heart 🤎. Most platforms draw it as a white heart with a light gray edge, so it pops in dark mode and looks softer in light mode.
♡ is much older: it is the WHITE HEART SUIT from playing cards, a text symbol that takes the color of your text. Phones that were never updated past 2019 may show 🤍 as a box, while ♡ works almost everywhere. For more outline styles, see the heart outline symbol page or browse every heart symbol.
How to type a white heart
On iPhone and Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for "white heart". On Windows, press Win + . (period) and type "white heart"; on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space. In Discord and Slack, type :white_heart:.
In a bio, a single 🤍 next to your name looks calm. Pair it with soft symbols like ☁︎ and 🕊︎, or put it between angel wings for an angelic look.