🧡
orange heart
Unicode: 1F9E1
Description
A vibrant orange heart, often used to represent warmth, creativity, and inner calm.
Group:
Smileys & Emotion > heart
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Typically represents warmth, comfort, creativity, encouragement, and sometimes superficial affection or friendship.
Backstory
The orange heart emoji was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017. It was introduced alongside other colored hearts to provide more nuanced expressions of love, friendship, and assorted sentiments beyond the traditional red heart.
Usage Examples
- Expressing friendship: 'Thinking of you, friend 🧡'
- Indicating warmth/comfort: 'Cozy night in 🧡'
- Representing autumn: 'Happy fall! 🍂🧡'
- Supporting a cause: 'Spreading awareness for a good cause 🧡'
- Showing creativity: 'Feeling inspired today 🎨🧡'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Often symbolizes warmth, autumn, Halloween, courage, or a more casual form of love than the red heart.
East Asian culture:
Can be associated with Buddhism, wisdom, and spiritual purity, or simply a friendly, warm connection.