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💌 Love Letter emoji

[luhv let-er ih-moh-jee]

September 21, 2018

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What does 💌 Love Letter emoji mean?

The love letter emoji is one of many that use a traditional heart to convey the idea of love. On all platforms, the emoji is depicted with a simple envelope line drawing, the flap sealed with a pink or red heart sticker.

It’s used in all kinds of posts and messages about love and affection.

Where does 💌 Love Letter emoji come from?

Is there anything more romantic than a declaration of love in written form? Sadly, love letters have fallen out of favor ….

Critics of texting and social media claim that even the act of writing a friendly letter has become a thing of the past, and that people are not learning to express themselves the way they used to.

Yes, you could write a love letter to someone by email, but chances are good it won’t have the same impact as a handwritten one, lovingly folded and put into an envelope, addressed by the besotted‘s writer’s hand. Finding a real love letter in one’s mailbox is a thing to be savored and remembered. Or … so we’ve heard. Nobody’s writing the dictionary these days.

Who wrote the first love letter, you ask? Chances are good the first declaration of love took its form in a gift of a dead animal or perhaps a cave drawing. That’s more romantic than email, too, we guess.

The love letter emoji though wasn’t first written until it was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Examples of 💌 Love Letter emoji

Who uses 💌 Love Letter emoji?

The love letter emoji is used to express general affection, friendly love, familial love, romantic love, “positive vibes,” and even hard crushes on pop idols, a very popular usage on Twitter in general.

You just can’t put rules on this kind of thing.

[💌] quote with an emoji for an indirect
i want to spread positive vibes and i'm feeling extra soft rn ✨

— M. [ia:📌] (@BABYHYUNGWONIE) September 21, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn7PKQMlgRi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

This is a @Louis_Tomlinson appreciation tweet because I am so proud of him 💌

2014 #iHeartFestival pic.twitter.com/iEeumFoE3O

— iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) September 21, 2018

https://twitter.com/DANC3RACHA/status/1042769736138805248

https://twitter.com/dailyunnie/status/1042871402024456192

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn-4-L8gFDI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

In these two posts, the emoji is used to express a love of letter-writing, which is a super “meta” use of the emoji.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn9Tt-cgj3d/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnyW98yBOMw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link