HEART EYES EMOJI ANDROID

In Western cartoons, we can find classic characters like Donald Duck, Tom Cat, Penelope Pussycat, and Snoopy swooning with hearts for eyes when smitten by a sweetheart. Artists have long inked heart-shaped eyes as a visual shorthand for love in both Western and Japanese comics and animation. Their design is more dynamic, even more cartoonish-and for good reason.

HEART EYES EMOJI ANDROID

The consistency of 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes joins a growing convergence of emoji design, particularly noticeable after Google retired its “blobs” and Samsung started hewing to the look of other vendors.Ībove (left to right): The Heart-Eyes emoji on Google Android 4.4, Google Android 8.0, Samsung TouchWiz 7.0, and Samsung Experience 9.0.īefore Samsung Experience 9.0 and under Google Android 4.4 and 5.0, the two tech giants featured 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes emojis that keeled back, as if literally love-struck. And most distinctively, of course, two red or pink hearts burst with love as the emoji’s eyes. Except for HTC, the emoji boasts a full, slack-jawed smile, sometimes flashing teeth and tongue, as we see on Microsoft. Only HTC's has a closed mouth.Īcross platforms, 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes has a fairly uniform appearance. But a great many of us don’t need to scroll to locate 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes, as it finds a ready home under our “Recently Used” tabs.Ībove: The Heart-Eyes Emoji is very consistent across platforms, mainly varying by teeth and tongue. On the Apple keyboard, 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes sits-with apparent satisfaction-between 😎 Smiling Face With Sunglasses and 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss, itself a Top Ten emoji. We’ve been taken with 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes since 2010, when Unicode 6.0 approved it for use on a variety of modern platforms.Īpple incorporated it as part of its early, limited-release emoji implementation for Japan in 2008, and the original incarnation from Japanese carriers dates back to as early as 1999. 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes has a seldom used feline peer, 😻 Smiling Cat Face with Heart-Eyes. The objects of its passion are many and various, ranging from people to possessions, and its tone can be romantic or platonic depending on context. Where do they come from? 🔤 MeaningĬolloquially referred to as Heart-Eyes and officially called Smiling Face with Heart-Shaped Eyes within the Unicode Standard, 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes enthusiastically conveys love and infatuation, as if to say “I love/am in love with” or “I’m crazy about/obsessed with” someone or something. 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes has a winning smile, to be sure, but its popularity may be due to the cross-cultural familiarity of those throbbing peepers. In 2017, this emoji ranked 4th on Apple platforms and 2nd on Facebook. Dogging its heels, though, is another smiley: 😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes. By many measures, 😂 Face With Tears of Joy has led the pack as the most used emoji in recent years.

Heart eyes emoji