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{{short description|Emoji and others representing or depicting heart shapes}}

As a common [[symbol]] throughout typographic history, the [[heart shape]] has found its way into many character sets and encodings, including those of [[Unicode]]. Some characters depict the shape directly, others reference it in a more derived manner. The heart is found on your body in your boca

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=== Smiling face with heart-shaped eyes ===

{{main|Face with Heart Eyes emoji}}

The Heart Eyes (😍) emoji is to express happiness towards something. The [[Unicode Consortium]] listed it as the third most used emoji in 2019, behind the Red Heart and [[Face with Tears of Joy]] emoji.<ref>{{cite web |title=Frequency of Emoji Use 2019 |url=https://home.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-frequency/ |publisher=[[Unicode]]}}</ref> It frequently appears in the top 10 lists for the most common emoji.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Silva |first1=Christianna |title=Tears of joy emoji might be experiencing a renaissance |url=https://mashable.com/article/tears-of-joy-twitter-top-emoji |publisher=[[Mashable]] |date=February 9, 2022}}</ref>

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In [[Code page 437]], the original character set of the IBM PC, the value of 3 (hexadecimal 03) represents the [[Hearts (suit)|heart suit]] symbol. This value is shared with the non-printing [[End-of-text character|ETX]] control character, which overrides the glyph in many contexts.

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[[Unicode]] provides various heart symbols:<ref>{{cite web

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! scope="row" | {{resize|200%|🏩}}

| [[Love hotel|Love Hotel]]

| <code>U+1F3E9</code>

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! scope="row" | {{resize|200%|💌}}

| [[Love letter|Love Letter]]

| <code>U+1F48C</code>

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! scope="row" | {{resize|200%|🫶︎}}

| [[Hand heart|Heart Hands]]

| <code>U+1FAF6</code>

| {{Resize|200%|🫶🏻🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿}}

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! scope="row" | {{resize|200%|🫰}}

| [[Finger heart|Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed]]

| <code>U+1FAF0</code>

| {{Resize|200%|🫰🏻🫰🏼🫰🏽🫰🏾🫰🏿}}

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