Brown was the last of the basic colours to get its own heart. ๐ค arrived with ๐ค white heart in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, the same release that brought ๐ค and ๐ซ, while ๐ had been around since 2010. Before that, a brown heart meant pairing โค๏ธ with ๐ซ or simply doing without. Away from the swatches, brown is the colour of comfort food and small animals: ๐ซ chocolate, ๐ช cookies, ๐ฅ potatoes, ๐ฐ chestnuts, โ coffee, ๐งธ a teddy bear, ๐ฟ๏ธ a chipmunk. The newest member is ๐โ๐ซ brown mushroom from Emoji 15.1 (2023), which is not a new drawing at all but the ordinary ๐ joined to the brown square. Brown gets picked for autumn posts, coffee shop captions, bakery menus and, more and more, for talking about skin tone and identity.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When was the brown heart emoji added?โผ
๐ค was added in Emoji 12.0 in 2019, together with ๐ค white heart. That is nine years after ๐ purple heart and three after ๐ค black heart, which is why brown hearts are missing from older phone screenshots and early meme templates.
What is the difference between ๐ค and ๐ซ?โผ
Only the shape. ๐ค large brown circle and ๐ซ large brown square arrived together in 2019 and carry no emotional meaning of their own. People use them as markers in colour coded lists and as pixels in emoji art, and ๐ซ also serves as the colour half of ๐โ๐ซ brown mushroom.
Is there a brown bear emoji?โผ
Yes, though its name never says brown. ๐ป bear face is drawn brown on most platforms, and ๐งธ teddy bear, which is on this page, is a lighter tan. ๐ปโโ๏ธ polar bear, added in Emoji 13.0 in 2020, is the white version, which is why a plain search for bear mixes the two.
The brown heart is often used to express pride, love or solidarity with Black and brown communities, and many people chose it during the 2020 racial justice protests as an alternative to the standard red. It also works for plain warmth: earthy aesthetics, coffee, chocolate or an autumn walk. Hearts cannot take skin tone modifiers, which partly explains why a coloured heart picked up that role. Context does the work here. ๐ค next to โ๐พ reads very differently from ๐ค next to โ, and both uses are common.
A mushroom built from a square
๐โ๐ซ shows how Unicode adds variants without adding new characters. It is three code points: ๐ mushroom, an invisible zero width joiner, and ๐ซ brown square. A device that knows the sequence draws a brown cap; one that does not shows ๐๐ซ side by side, which still gets the idea across. ๐โโฌ black cat and ๐ฆโโฌ black bird use the same trick with โฌ. That reuse is one reason the 2019 swatches matter beyond colour coded lists: they double as colour labels inside other emoji.
Food and fur make up most of the set
Search for brown and the grid fills up with things to eat. ๐ซ chocolate bar, ๐ช cookie and ๐ฅ fortune cookie cover dessert, ๐ฅ potato and ๐ roasted sweet potato cover dinner, and ๐ฐ chestnut, ๐ฅ peanuts and ๐ฅฅ coconut cover the snack drawer. โ hot beverage does duty in coffee captions, while ๐งธ teddy bear and ๐ฟ๏ธ chipmunk handle anything cosy or cute, and ๐ด horse face suits stable and riding posts. Shades vary by vendor, so a brown theme built on ๐ซ swatches will look more consistent than one built on food.
