Pink Heart Emoji Kitchen
Pink heart has the strangest release history in Emoji Kitchen. It appeared on 18 April 2023 with exactly one pairing, stayed close to nothing for most of two years, then gained 130 in a single January 2025 release. It now sits at 352 of 619, well below the median. For an emoji this popular in messages, that is a surprisingly thin set.
Every Pink Heart mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added Pink Heart to Emoji Kitchen on 18 April 2023, starting with 1 combinations. It now mixes with 352 emojis, built up over 16 separate releases. The most recent, on 2 February 2026, added 6.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1.7% | |
| 5 | 1.4% | |
| 4 | 1.1% | |
| 12 | 3.4% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 130 | 36.9% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 44 | 12.5% | |
| 1 | 0.3% | |
| 27 | 7.7% | |
| 17 | 4.8% | |
| 22 | 6.3% | |
| 4 earlier drops | 82 | 23.3% |
Newest Pink Heart pairings
These partners arrived in the 2 February 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
A debut of one
No other emoji on this page launched with a single combination. Most arrive with a batch somewhere between 100 and 220. Pink heart got one, which reads less like a launch and more like a placeholder that someone forgot about. The 30 January 2025 release finally gave it 130, and February 2026 added six more. The practical consequence is that 267 partners still produce nothing, so pink heart is one of the emoji where you should expect dead ends rather than assume a missing sticker means you did something wrong.
Why the newer heart colours lag
Pink heart only became a Unicode character in 2022, alongside light blue and grey. Emoji Kitchen coverage tends to follow a character's age more closely for hearts than for animals, and the older heart colours have had years longer to accumulate pairings. If you want a heart mashup with reliable coverage, the established colours are the safer choice. Pink heart is worth using when the specific shade matters more than the odds of the combination existing.
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Pink Heart Emoji Kitchen FAQ
Why do so many pink heart combinations not work?
It has 352 pairings out of 619 possible partners, so 267 return nothing. That is well below the median of 472. Pink heart launched with a single combination in April 2023 and most of its current set arrived in one January 2025 release.
Is pink heart newer than the other hearts?
Yes. It was added to Unicode in 2022 along with light blue and grey hearts. The older colours have had considerably longer to accumulate Emoji Kitchen pairings, which is the main reason their sets are larger.
Which heart emoji has the best Emoji Kitchen coverage?
Among the hearts, the longer-established colours generally do better than the 2022 additions. Checking a specific heart's own hub page is the only reliable way to see its count, since the sets differ a lot more than the artwork does.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.