The orange broken heart emoji (💔🧡) became a powerful representation of collective mourning and loss. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

What does the orange heart mean? Introduced in 2017 as part of Unicode 10.0 and added to Emoji 5.0, the orange heart serves as a versatile symbol in digital dialogues.

Harry Styles' mom, Anne Twist, posted a moving 3-word tribute to Liam Payne after his death at age 31 on Oct. 16, writing, 'Just a boy' alongside a broken heart emoji ...

The dying rose emoji seems to stand in for the broken heart emoji in posts. The swap seems to have happened because some people feel that the broken heart emoji is now played out or too common.

Regardless, the broken heart emoji is pretty widely accepted as a way of saying I’m crushed. (Both in serious and sarcastic situations.) Good for: Demonstrating heartbreak or sadness.

The broken heart emoji? Tired. Predictable. The wilted rose emoji? Aesthetic. Unexpected. The trend began earlier this year when a video from one TikTok user went viral.