Mending heart emoji ❤️🩹
❤️🩹 is the mending heart: a red heart with an adhesive bandage across it. It means healing — recovering from heartbreak, grief, illness or a hard year — and it is also…
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What the mending heart ❤️🩹 emoji means
❤️🩹 is the mending heart: a red heart with an adhesive bandage across it. It means healing — recovering from heartbreak, grief, illness or a hard year — and it is also sent as comfort: “I know it hurts, it will mend”. It is a ZWJ sequence of ❤️ and 🩹 added in Emoji 13.1 (2020), so older devices show a heart and a plaster separately. It is the hopeful step after 💔 broken heart; where the broken heart is the wound, the mending heart is the recovery. From a guy or a girl it is tender rather than romantic.
Unicode name: mending heart · U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79 · Emoji 13.1 (2020) · group: Smileys & Emotion.
How people use it
- Healing: after a breakup, a loss, a rough patch
- Comfort: to someone who is hurting
- Recovery: from surgery or illness
- Self-care: therapy, rest, getting better
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| mending heartU+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79 | Healing, recovering | |
| broken heartU+1F494 | Heartbreak, the wound | |
| red heartU+2764 U+FE0F | Love, whole | |
| adhesive bandageU+1FA79 | The plaster on its own | |
| face holding back tearsU+1F979 | Moved, tender |
Bandaged heart emoji: other names for ❤️🩹
The mending heart is also called the bandaged heart emoji or repaired heart emoji. The symbol shows a red heart with a plaster across it, and that plaster is what prompts the alternative names. In British English, a plaster is the small adhesive strip you put on a cut, so ‘bandaged heart’ is a very natural description.
The term ‘repaired heart emoji’ works because the image suggests a heart that has been fixed. Some people also describe it as a heart with a bandage, though that wording is less common than ‘bandaged heart’. All these names point to the same idea: a heart that is being looked after and put back together.
Questions people ask
What does ❤️🩹 mean?
A heart that is healing — getting over hurt, or offering comfort to someone who is.
What is the difference between 💔 and ❤️🩹?
💔 is the break itself: pain, loss. ❤️🩹 is the bandaged heart afterwards: recovery and hope.
Why does the mending heart show as two symbols?
It is a sequence of ❤️ and 🩹 joined with a ZWJ. Phones without Emoji 13.1 support show both parts.
Is the bandaged heart emoji the same as the mending heart?
Yes, they are the same symbol. The mending heart ❤️🩹 is commonly called the bandaged heart because of the plaster across the red heart.
Is there a repaired heart emoji?
Yes, ❤️🩹 is often called the repaired heart emoji. It shows a heart with a bandage, meaning recovery and healing.
What is the heart with band aid emoji?
The heart with band aid emoji is ❤️🩹 mending heart. It shows a red heart with a plaster across it and means healing after hurt.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
