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馃挆 Growing Heart emoji
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What does听馃挆听Growing Heart emoji mean?
Our love for this emoji just keeps on growing more and more every day.
The growing heart emoji, 馃挆, shows a pink or red heart surrounded by the outlines of several slightly lighter-colored hearts of increasing size, which suggests that the heart is expanding.
It’s used to express outpourings of emotions like love, joy, affection, pride, and even sorrow.听
Where does 馃挆 Growing Heart emoji come from?
Unicode approved growing heart emoji 馃挆听in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0. Its release was by joined a whole host of heart-shape emoji:听heart with arrow 馃挊, beating heart听馃挀, broken heart听馃挃, two hearts 馃挄, sparkling heart听馃挅, heart with ribbon 馃挐, heart decoration 馃挓, and revolving hearts听馃挒.
Most versions of the emoji, as shown in the screenshot from Emojipedia below, display a heart growing by at least two sizes, with the color of the hearts lightening at each higher level.听Older versions actually animated a听heart to grow larger.
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The design of听growing heart emoji 馃挆 reminds us of one notable instance from Dr. Suess’s 1957 children’s book (and 1966 animated film)听How the Grinch Stole Christmas.听Early on in the story, it鈥檚 implied that the main reason for the fictional Grinch鈥檚 misanthropy is that his heart is 鈥�two sizes too small.鈥� At the story’s climax, the Grinch has an epiphany about humanity (and Christmas) that causes his shriveled heart to 鈥�[grow] three sizes that day.鈥澨�
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Examples of 馃挆 Growing Heart emoji
Who uses 馃挆 Growing Heart emoji?
The growing heart emoji 馃挆 is used whenever someone wants to show an outpouring of love, joy, pride, or any strong, positive emotion that would cause your heart to swell or grow. (If your heart literally swells or grows, please contact a doctor immediately).
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It can also be used to evoke strong feelings of sadness or sympathy.
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