With more than 2 billion active users, WhatsApp can boast of being the most popular instant messaging application in the world. We all use it daily to talk with our friends, family, co-workers … We often use emojis to communicate, so that, for example, if they send us a video that we liked a lot, we respond with a smiley face or a heart. One of the most used emojis is the face surrounded by hearts . But do we really know what it means when we use it?
The vast majority of people believe that it is someone in love, so it is an emoji reserved solely and exclusively for couples . However, according to Emojipedia, the encyclopedia of all emojis made by Unicode, indicates that this is not the case.
The name given to the face surrounded by hearts is ‘Smiling Face with Hearts’ and it expresses a great variety of affectionate and happy feelings , especially when a person is in love. As for the number of hearts, there are three on WhatsApp, although it may vary depending on the platform.
Meaning of other WhatsApp emojis
According to Unicode, this is the meaning of some of the most used emojis in the instant messaging application.
- Smiley face with an open mouth: indicates that we are in a good mood and do not hesitate to express it with a smile. It is used to express enthusiasm.
- Face winking: it is one of the emojis with the greatest number of meanings. From a joke to someone who has ulterior motives or wants to flirt.
- Upside down face: we have to use this emoji when what we have said is silly or we react to a joke.
- Smiley face with heart-shaped eyes: it means that our hearts go a thousand and one and we are in love with a person, a thing or a place. It expresses a very high degree of affection and love.
- Face with the hand in the mouth: expresses shock, surprise or that we have suddenly realized something. A very typical gesture to acknowledge that the other person is lying.
- Rolling-eyed face: We find the situation or person annoying and boring, so we don’t want to continue participating in the conversation.
