Orange heart emoji meaning and the orange shapes 🧡 🟠 🟧 🔶 🔸
Orange heart is the warm, friendly heart. It sits between red (romance) and yellow (friendship), so from a guy or a girl it usually says I care about you, thinking of you or you did great without declaring love. Some people read it as a gentle sign that the feeling is not romantic; others send it simply because orange is their colour, their team's colour or the colour of autumn and Halloween. Snapchat's friend emoji never use the orange heart, so an orange heart there is a person's choice, not a status. It was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, the last of the rainbow hearts to arrive, after and .
Orange circle and orange square came in 2019 with the full set of coloured circles and squares. They are used as coloured dots and bullets: in lists, polls and status lines ( online, away or idle, busy), in colour-coded Discord or Slack channels and in traffic-light scales where orange is the middle, moderate or warning level. Large orange diamond and small orange diamond are older, from Unicode 6.0 in 2010, and serve the same bullet job in a sharper shape; is a favourite for sub-points under . The four shapes together, , are the plain way to say orange in an aesthetic bio without naming anything.
Orange fruit and food emoji: is officially a tangerine
The orange fruit emoji is not named Orange in Unicode at all: its name is Tangerine, and keyboards list it under that word, which is why searching "orange" in an emoji picker sometimes shows nothing. It means oranges, mandarins, clementines, vitamin C, orange juice and, by extension, anything orange. Carrot, peach and mango are the other orange produce; is also the slang emoji for a bum, so mind the context. Jack-o-lantern is the only pumpkin emoji, carved face and all, and it is the orange of October, Halloween and pumpkin spice.
The orange plate continues with cheese, honey (amber-orange in the pot), fried shrimp and shrimp, shallow pan of food (a saffron-orange paella on most keyboards), tropical drink and beverage box, which Apple draws as a carton of orange juice. For the whole orchard and kitchen see Fruit & Vegetable Emoji and Food & Drink Emoji; these are only the orange ones.
Orange animals: fox, tiger, lion and the orange cat emoji
Fox (2016) is the orange animal people send most: clever, cute, and the mascot of Firefox and countless usernames. Tiger face and tiger are orange with black stripes; lion, leopard and giraffe are the tawny-orange savanna crowd, and orangutan (2019) is the only ape with orange fur. The small ones are chipmunk and hamster, both drawn in orange-brown, and tropical fish, which several keyboards colour orange like a clownfish.
The orange cat emoji is a platform question. Apple draws cat and cat face as an orange tabby, which is why "orange cat emoji" is such a common search, while many other keyboards show a grey or tan cat. If you need a cat that is orange everywhere, pair it with the colour: or . Phoenix (2023) is a bird made of orange flame and belongs with the fire emoji below as much as with the animals.
Fire, sunsets and autumn: the orange side of nature
Fire is orange on every keyboard and means hot, lit, excellent or on a streak; see the Fire Emoji & Flame Symbols collection for every flame. Volcano glows with orange lava, comet is an orange fireball with a tail, collision is an orange-and-yellow burst for a crash, a punch or an explosion of feeling, and ringed planet (2019) is Saturn in orange and cream.
The sky emoji are the warmest orange of all: sunrise over the sea, sunrise over mountains, sunset over a city and cityscape at dusk with the last orange light behind the towers. The four are interchangeable for golden hour, a good morning or a good night. In autumn the orange moves to the trees: maple leaf is red-orange and also the symbol of Canada, fallen leaf is the brown-orange of November, and rosette is an orange prize ribbon that doubles as a marigold or a chrysanthemum. The whole season, pumpkins and scarves included, is in Fall & Autumn Emoji.
Safety orange, the basketball and the flags with orange
Orange is the colour of being seen. Construction is the striped roadwork barrier (orange and black on Apple, yellow and black on most other keyboards), construction worker wears the hard hat and high-visibility vest, safety vest (2019) is that vest on its own, and ring buoy (2021) is the orange-and-white lifebuoy from the side of a ship or pool. Basketball has been orange since the late 1950s, when the ball was changed from dark brown so that players and spectators could follow it; the emoji is the orange of every basketball team and league. Orange book is the orange volume in the row of coloured books .
Nine flags carry a real orange band or emblem: India (saffron on top), Ireland (orange at the fly), Côte d'Ivoire and Niger (orange, white and green), Armenia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Cyprus (a copper-orange map of the island) and Zambia (an orange eagle and stripe). The Netherlands has no orange on its flag, but orange is its national colour from the House of Orange, so is how Dutch fans dress a post on King's Day or a match day. Saffron orange is also sacred in Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism, which is why and turn up in Diwali and desi aesthetic combos; see Diwali Emoji and Hindu Emoji & Symbols for those.
Symbols
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The orange heart and the orange shapes
What people reach for first: the heart, then the circle, square and diamonds that say orange as plain colour.
Orange fruit and food
The fruit emoji 🍊 is officially a tangerine; 🎃 is the only pumpkin.
Orange animals
Big cats and the fox first, then the small ones; the cat is orange on Apple and grey on many others.
Fire, sky and autumn
The hot orange of flames and the soft orange of sunsets and leaves.
Safety orange: signs, gear and the ball
Orange because it has to be seen: roadworks, high-visibility gear, the lifebuoy and the basketball.
How to use them
6 situationsClick to copyOrange Emoji combos
15Worth knowing
- The fruit was named before the colour: English had the fruit "orange" by the 1400s, from Arabic and Persian through French, and only started calling the colour "orange" in the 1500s. Before that, orange things were "yellow-red".
- is called Tangerine in the Unicode standard, not Orange, so typing "orange" into some emoji pickers finds and but not the fruit.
- Basketballs were dark brown until the late 1950s; the orange ball was introduced so that players and spectators could see it better, and it has been the standard ever since.
- arrived in 2017, seven years after , which left orange as the one rainbow colour without a heart for most of the emoji era.
- The Golden Gate Bridge is painted a colour called International Orange, chosen because it stands out against fog and sea and sky; the same idea makes safety vests, cones and lifebuoys orange.
Questions people ask
8What does the orange heart emoji mean?
means warm, friendly affection: care, support, encouragement or thinking of someone, without the romance of . It is also sent for orange things, such as autumn, Halloween, a team in orange or a Dutch match day.
What does the orange heart mean from a guy or a girl?
Usually that they like you and feel warm toward you as a friend. Some people use it to keep things light when would say too much; others just prefer orange. The rest of the message tells you more than the colour does.
How do I copy and paste orange emoji?
Tap or click any emoji on this page to copy it, then paste it into your message, caption or bio. Combos copy as one piece.
What are the orange emojis?
The shapes , the food , the animals , fire and sky , autumn and the safety-orange things .
Is there an orange emoji for the fruit?
Yes, , but it is officially named Tangerine. Search for "tangerine" if "orange" shows nothing in your keyboard.
What does the orange circle emoji mean?
is a plain orange dot. People use it as a bullet, a colour swatch, a status (away or idle, between and ) or a medium level on a warning scale.
Is there an orange cat emoji?
On Apple devices and are drawn as an orange tabby. On many other keyboards the cat is grey or tan, so add the colour, , if it has to be orange everywhere.
What are good orange aesthetic emoji combos?
, , , and are the common ones. Keep to three or four emoji and lead with a shape or the heart so the row reads as a colour.
