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Blue heart emoji meaning: What is the symbol used for?
Including a list of all the heart emojis available on your phone
KNOWING which emoji to use at the end of your messages can massively improve your texting and impress your pals.
Here's all you need to know about when, where and how you can expertly use the blue heart emoji.
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What does the blue heart emoji mean?
The blue heart emoji is often referred to as the symbol of friendship.
It is a symbol of trust, peace and loyalty and is one of the easiest ways to show your admiration for a friend at the end of a heartfelt message.
The heart is often used to convey your love towards someone, with the red heart representing a romantic connection and pink typically being used by the closest of pals.
But, the blue one carries a much simpler meaning of just good pals and can be sent to almost anyone regardless of how often you chat.
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It is also a key colour heart to use if you are trying to be a nice person but don't want to give off any mixed messages.
The blue heart emoji first came out in 2010 and was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
If you're unsure about how to use a heart emoji, we have this handy guide.
When should you use the blue heart emoji?
Like most of the friendly emojis you can use the blue heart on pretty much all conversations no matter who they are with.
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It is great in friendly group chats, to your family or even as a show of support online.
In the last few years, it has become a symbol of medical workers and more precisely the NHS staff.
X and Instagram users often have the symbol in their bios or in their handles to stand in unity with the tireless workers.
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Football fans whose club have blue in their badge or kit can use them in a similar way.
Blue is also a gender neutral colour meaning it can be used by men and women making it universally useful.
Often emojis can also pop up on social media trends and memes.
Emojis often have unexpected double meanings, meaning it's natural to check to see if its appropriate to use.
Before using the blue heart emoji, take into account that it's open to interpretation.
What other heart emojis are there?
Brand new emojis pop up on our keyboards every year with there now being over 3,780 to choose from on the latest Unicode 15.1 update.
Love hearts are on almost everyone's most used list whether it's the traditional red one or the most funky versions such as the fiery heart or the one wrapped up like a present.
Here is the complete list of all the heart emojis available online:
- White heart
- Blue heart
- Red heart
- Black heart
- Yellow heart
- Green heart
- Purple heart
- Brown heart
- Beating heart
- Growing heart
- Fiery heart
- Broken heart
- Exclamation mark heart
- Heart with arrow
- Double heart
- Heart with a bow
- Bandaged heart
- Pulsing heart
- Swishing heart
You may find that you have a go-to heart emoji that you manage to squeeze into every conversation or you might be the type to share the love.
However, now you know there are a whole load to choose from, you may want to mix it up from now on.
When were emojis created and why do people use them instead of words?
Emojis were first created back in 1998 to make texting more fun, interesting and simpler.
Shigetaka Kurita created the first 180 emojis for a Japanese mobile web platform with the idea blossoming out ever since.
New emojis are often added to the collection which means there is pretty much one to use for any conversation.
People often use emojis instead of words as it can get across the point you want to make faster and more effectively.
One emoji can usually say all that needs to be said such as the heart which shows love or a smiley face which shows happiness.
Emojis have also become used as instant reactions to a message.
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For example, a user may reply with a laughing face to a joke or even a thumbs up emoji to show that they've seen the message.
Some of the wackiest emojis include the upside down smiley face, the clown face and of course the secret favourite the purple aubergine.
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