Ily Emojis
20 emojis tagged ily in the official Unicode CLDR project. Click any emoji for its meaning, copy-paste, and per-platform rendering.
"ILY" is texting shorthand for "I love you", and emojis tagged with this keyword form the affectionate-reaction set. Featured symbols include 🥰 smiling face with hearts, 😍 smiling face with heart-eyes, 😘 face blowing a kiss, 😗 kissing face, 😚 kissing face with closed eyes, 😙 kissing face with smiling eyes, 💘 heart with arrow, 💖 sparkling heart, and the 🤟 love-you gesture (an ASL-derived sign). Use them to sign off intimate messages, react to wholesome content, or amplify a verbal "I love you" with visual warmth.
- 🥰 smiling face with hearts
- 😍 smiling face with heart-eyes
- 😘 face blowing a kiss
- 😗 kissing face
- 😚 kissing face with closed eyes
- 😙 kissing face with smiling eyes
- 💘 heart with arrow
- 💖 sparkling heart
- 💗 growing heart
- 💓 beating heart
- 💛 yellow heart
- 💚 green heart
- 💙 blue heart
- 💜 purple heart
- 🤟 love-you gesture
- 💕 two hearts
- 💝 heart with ribbon
- 🩷 pink heart
- 🩵 light blue heart
- 🩶 grey heart
Frequently asked about ily emojis
What does 🤟 love-you gesture mean?
🤟 is the American Sign Language sign for 'I love you' — extended thumb, index, and pinky with middle and ring fingers folded. It's heavily used in deaf and hard-of-hearing communities and has crossed into mainstream texting as a casual 'love ya' alternative to ❤️ or 😘.
Is sending 😘 platonic or romantic?
Depends entirely on the relationship and culture. In Mediterranean and Latin American contexts, 😘 reads as friendly affection between friends and family. In Anglophone Gen Z chat, it usually carries romantic or at least flirty undertones. Read the room before sending it to a coworker.
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