❤Be Cautious Of The Heart Emoji Color You Send!

Have you ever paid attention on the color of the heart emoji you sent? Heart emojis have always been used frequently on social media. So, what the different emoji heart colors mean?

The existing 9 colors of heart '❤💛🧡💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍', although they are all in the same shape, because of the color differences, the meaning involved is also different. If you want to "show your heart" to your special one through them, you need to choose them more carefully!

🔺: Which heart is your favorite?

Please be noted that all the heart emoji meanings we give here is based on the original proposal of this emoji and color psychology. Color psychology is the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior. Before color psychology as a field, color was being used for centuries as a method of treatment as early as 2000 BC. And now, the applications of color psychology touch many other domains such as in sports, marketing, hospital settings, and game design. According to related research, it is said that 'colors have qualities that can cause certain emotions.'

Therefore, we added the explanations that related to color psychology to make sure the objectivity and authority of the meanings of color hearts. However, the actual meaning still needs to be based on context💻.

All heart emojis are belong to subcategory 'emotion'. Apart from emojis such as heartbeat💓 or burning heart❤️‍🔥, there are as many as 9 colors for heart emoji alone and will continue to add color variations in the future. Rumors said that because of the popularly of all kinds of heart emojis, maybe the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee will further split this subcategory into two, hearts will have their own subcategory someday.

Red is the color of passion, lust and vibrant. Whether a red dress or a red rose, color red can always show the most passionate feelings🔥.

Red heart ❤ is also the most classic heart emoji, you can use this emoji to show your straightforward love, affection or support to the one you care about. It is used widely between romantic relationship, family and friends. It can be called the most non-mistake heart emoji.

Note💡: Sometimes it can be mixed with heart suit emoji ♥️ related to poker.

Yellow, a primary color. It is a color gives a feeling of joy, optimism, happiness and calmness, usually associated with the sun☀️.

And this yellow heart 💛 is often used to express friendship, or the love between you and your family members. It can also mean loyalty, kindness, honesty, creativeness and other good qualities. In general, it is a positive heart emoji.

Depending on the color psychology, orange is a color that stands for warmth, courage and excitement, it can be combined from red and yellow, so orange can be said have combined the characteristics of both 2 colors.

Obviously, 🧡 can on one hand express love or admiration, and can also mean close bonds, nostalgia and protection. On the other, the orange heart also shows an emotion of cautious, or to say coward. When you want to send a red heart❤️ to someone you like, but don't really have the courage... Since 🧡 is next to the red heart, maybe it is the best choice to show your feelings without pushing the relationship. This orange heart may be the most suitable emoji for relationship 'more than friends, less than lover'.

Green is regarded as an eco-friendly and relaxing color that recognized by many people, and most times symbolize for harmony, tranquility and peace☮. However, green is also a color represent envy or jealousy. In some culture, it is even a color indicate betrayal or being cheated.

Of course you can use green heart 💚 to show your care for the environment, but it is more often be used to express jealousy in a positive way. Such as 'I heard you make a new girlfriend, good for you💚' or 'she is a real beauty💚'. It also can be extended to express secret love, underground love, and unwilling love.

Note💡: Why green stands for jealousy? It is said that the credit goes to the famous tragedy 'Othello🎭️' that written by William Shakespeare——“O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” And the Greeks thought that when you were envy, your body produced too much bile and giving the skin a green tint.

When it comes to blue, do you think of the sky☁ or the vast sea🌊? In any case, blue is the representative color of wisdom, stability, authoritativeness and confident.

Blue heart 💙 is a heart emoji just for friends and platonic relationship. It is not as passionate as a red or a pink heart, but it shows a gentle, respect and long-lasting love. Since blue also contains melancholy, it represents deep, bitter love.

Purple is often associated with luxury, noble, elegance and sophistication, and it has also been used to indicate mysticism and magic🔮.

So, basically 💜 means calm, noble, elegance, luxury, or mysterious love, and can also be used to express emotions between parents and children. However, in social media, purple heart emoji is more used in topics of U.S. military (The Purple Heart award) or BTS (a South Korean boy band).

Note💡: There is a famous phrase used by Taehyung (a member of BTS), he said:" Do you know what purple means? Purple is the last color of the rainbow🌈. Purple means I will trust and love you for a long time..." Since then, 💜 had become the favorite emoji in BTS fan groups.

Brown is the color of dependable, safety and security. And since most chocolate is brown🍫, this color can also express feelings of bitter sweet.

You can use this brown heart emoji 🤎 to express more calm love, like, romance and other emotions, some people prefer to use it to indicate heart-shaped chocolate. In addition, brown heart emoji can also represent black or brown skin🏽🏾.

Black is a very controversial color. Some people think of it a color of formal, mysterious and rebellion, and others think of it a color of sad, ruthless and ending🔚. This all depends on the situation when you use color black.

Thus, on the one hand 🖤 black heart emoji can express depress and sad, in this case, it is often used with ⚱ a funeral urn, 🙏 folded hands, ⚰ coffin, and 😔 pensive face, is often added when expressing R.I.P.. On the other hand, when it as positive meaning, this emoji can also represent the Gothic style and dark Lolita that young people like, 🖤 can show your rebellion and black humor too. But you should be aware that in some culture, black heart means ruthless and lacking in conscience, or a heart full of hatred and jealousy, and this is totally negative.

Like color black, white color also has dual character. In positive, white stands for sincerity, purity and innocence, for example brides always wear white to show their purity👰. In negative, it can express emptiness sadness and isolation.

A white heart 🤍 symbolizes happiness, pure love and the great love that cannot be destroyed. It can also represent White Day and can be used with chocolate 🍫 to mean white chocolate. On the other hand, just like 🖤, white heart can show your condolences.

In the documents about the draft of Unicode version 15.0 that published last year, the Emoji Subcommittee showed to us there will be 3 more color heart released. They are light blue heart, pink heart and gray heart.

• Light Blue Heart: Light blue, or you can call this color turquoise, is a color that encourages focusing on yourself, like your own thoughts and feelings.

Depending on the color psychology, it is said that light blue can be connected to a higher self-esteem and love for oneself. So, light blue heart is a heart emoji just for yourself, it can be used in topics such as #loveyourself #doyourbest #controlyoueself or other self-encouragement topics✊.

• Pink Heart: No one can deny that pink is the color of tenderness and sweet🍬. It is less passionate than red, shows more gentle and less aggressive.

The pink heart is perfectly shows the characteristics of its color. Pink heart emoji can represent careful and thoughtful love, familiar love, gentle and sweet love. It can not only be used between romantic relationship💏, but also can be used in kinship👪.

• Gray Heart: Gray is a color neither dark nor white-colored, and shows characteristics such as unattached, neutral, impartial and indecisive.

On the one hand, gray heart emoji can mean moderate, restrained love or exhausting love. It may doesn't invigorate, empower or energize your love, but always in steady➡️. In addition, in some culture, gray heart means disappointed, or want to give up in something😢.

Except for the meanings mentioned above, of course you can use all these heart emoji for just decorate your text, or as dividing line to make your tweet more colorful.

As for groupies, especially K-pop🇰🇷 and J-pop🇯🇵 fans, when one of the heart colors is the official represent color for their idol, then this heart is the perfect emoji to show support to the idol they love🧑‍🎤.

In general, people will take different meanings of emoji depending on context or their own experiences, this may result that the actual meaning of heart emojis you meet may be different from this blog post. However, it's undeniable that each heart emoji has a different meaning, and I hope this post can be of reference to you😊.

Again, be cautious of the heart you sent and show your true feelings to the one you chat with❣️

• Colorpsychology.org
• Wikipedia: Color psychology
• Emoji Subcommittee Report Q4, 2021