Snapchat users who send and receive multiple snaps with friends will notice little emoji icons that appear next to their friends' names in the chat tab. This article explains Snapchat emojis and what they mean. Information in this article applies to the Snapchat app for iOS and Android.
What Are Snapchat Emojis?
The Snapchat app tracks your messaginghabits with your friends and assigns Friend emojis to represent the current status of your level of interaction with other users. As you continue to send and receive messages, the emojis will change over time.
Likewise, if you stop messaging someone for a while, the emoji may disappear completely. Your Friend emojis are not public; they are only visible to you. Emojis will look different depending on which platform you're using (iOS or Android).
Snapchat Friend Emoji Meanings
Meanings differ depending on friend status, interactions, and the length of time you've been friends with someone. Snapchat continually adds and removes friend emoji; the list below includes both past and present Snapchat emojis.
You can also customize Snapchat emojis; see the article section called How to Customize Friend Emojis.
Yellow Heart (Besties) 💛
You're both best friends. You send the most snaps to this friend, and they send the most snaps to you.
Red Heart (BFF) ❤️
A yellow heart becomes a red heart when you remain each other's BFF for a period of two weeks.
Two Pink Hearts (Super BFF) 💕
If you see the two pink hearts beside a friend's username, it means that this friend has been your number one best friend on Snapchat, or your "Super BFF," for two months in a row. It also means that you have beenthat friend's number one best friend out of all of their friends for two months as well.
There is a bug that causes the pink hearts emoji to occasionally be replaced by a yellow heart.
Grimacing Face 😬
A smiley bearing his teeth as if grimacing beside a friend's name means that your number one best friend is their number one best friend as well. In other words, you share a best friend.
Smirking Face 😏
When you see anemojiwith a smirk on its face beside a friend's name, it means that you're that friend's best friend, but they're not your best friend (you have a different best friend).
Smiling Face 😊
An emoji with smiling eyes and rosy cheeks beside a friend's name means that they're one of your best friends, but not your number one.
Sunglasses Face 😎
If you see a sunglasses-wearing smiley face beside a username, it means that one of your best friends is one of their best friends too.
If you're snapping with multiple friends as a group, you'll see the sparkle emoji appear, which can help you identify all the friends you're including in group chats.
Baby 👶
A baby emoji appears immediately after you add someone as a friend on Snapchat.
Fire 🔥
If you're super active on Snapchat, you may see a fieryflame emoji appear beside someone's name, meaning that you're on a "snapstreak." You've been snapping back and forth with them a lot over the past several days, and the longer you stick with it, the higher the snapstreak number you'll see beside the Fire emoji.
Hourglass ⌛
If you see an hourglass that's almost out of time, it means that your snapstreak is going to end soon. Start snapping now to save it and keep it going.
100💯
You'll see 100 next to Fire emoji when you snap back and forth for 100 days in a row.
Birthday Cake 🎂
When you see a cake beside a friend's name, it means that today is their birthday. Send them a snap to wish them a happy birthday.
Gold Star 🌟
Another user has replayed thisfriend's snaps in the past 24 hours.
There are several emoji translators on the web that can decode the meaning of any emoji.
Astrological Signs
If a person has added their birthday to Snapchat, the emoji for their astrological sign will appear on their profile:
♒: Aquarius
♓: Pisces
♈: Aries
♉️: Taurus
♊: Gemini
♋: Cancer
♌: Leo
♍: Virgo
♎: Libra
♏: Scorpio
♐: Saggitarius
♑: Capricorn
Other Emojis You Might See That Aren't Generated by Snapchat
Snapchat automatically adds the above emojis to people's profiles and avatars, but you may run into some other ones in usernames and elsewhere that the platform doesn't make. Here are some of them:
Purple Heart 💜: Snapchat used to put these on people's profiles during their birthday months. Along with general feelings of affection, fans of the Korean boy band BTS also use the purple heart to show their appreciation.
Green Heart 💚: Just like with the purple heart, you can use the green heart to spot K-pop fans. This one represents NCT.
Brown Heart 🤎: The brown heart gained popularity among supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement. It reflects pride, solidarity, and joy.
Star Eye 🤩: People may use the smiley emoji with stars for eyes when they spot a celebrity or other person they admire. They can also use it to describe admiration or being impressed.
Upside-Down Smiley 🙃: The inverted smiley face can mean a few things, including embarassment, irony, or that you're joking.
Wrapped Gift 🎁: The wrapped present emoji doesn't have any special meaning on Snapchat other than what it represents. People typically use it around special occasions like birthdays, holidays, and anniversaries.
How to Customize Friend Emojis
You can actually change the emojis for all the interactions listed above so that you see the exact emojis you want to see next to your friends' names. For example, if you want your number one best friend for two months to be the poop emoji instead of the two pink hearts:
Launch Snapchat and tap your Profile icon at the top of the app.
Tap the gear in the top-right of your profile to access your settings.
For the iOS version, tap Manage under Additional Services.
On the Android version of Snapchat, tap Customize Emojis under Features, and then skip to step 5.
Tap Friend Emojis to see a list of all the emojis with their corresponding meanings.
Tap Super BFF.
Tap the poop emoji. Any time you have a Super BFF, the pile of poo emoji will now appear next to that friend's name in the chat tab
Snapchat's Shift From Best Friends to Friend Emojis
Older versions of Snapchat included the best friends feature, which listed 3-7 of the friends you snapped with the most at the top of your friend list. In fact, you could tap on anyone's username to reveal who their best friends were. Due to privacy concerns from Snapchat users, the best friends feature was taken away in January of 2015 during an update.
FAQ
How do I change best friends on Snapchat?
Snapchat doesn't give users the option to choose who is on their best friends list. If you want to add or remove someone, you have to increase or decrease your interactions with them.
How do you get emojis to move on Snapchat?
Record a video and tap the Sticker icon. Drag a sticker onto the object you want it to follow, then tap and hold the sticker to pin it down.
How do I make an emoji of myself for Snapchat?
Use Bitmoji to make a personalized emoji that you can use on Snapchat. Bitmoji also works with Facebook, Gmail, and Slack.
💛 Yellow Heart: You are #1 best friends with each other. This means that you send the most amount of Snapchats to each other. ❤️ Red Heart: As mentioned, the red heart signifies that you and your friend have been #1 best friends for two weeks straight.
💛 Yellow Heart: You are #1 best friends with each other. This means that you send the most amount of Snapchats to each other. ❤️ Red Heart: As mentioned, the red heart signifies that you and your friend have been #1 best friends for two weeks straight.
What does 😬 😊 mean on Snapchat? The 😏 Smirking Face means that you are one of their best friends, but they might not be your best friend. The 😊 Smiling Face Snapchat emoji is an emoji that you send to your best friend.
Red heart: You've been #1 best friends for two weeks. Pink hearts: You've been #1 best friends for two months. Grimacing face: You share a #1 best friend, meaning you both send most of your messages to the same person. Smiling face: You are best friends, but not #1 best friends.
😎 Face With Sunglasses — One of your best friends is one of their best friends. This means that you send a lot of snaps to someone that they also send a lot of snaps to. 😬 Grimacing Face — Your #1 best friend is their #1 best friend. You send the most snaps to the same person that they do.
💕 Pink Hearts – You have been #1 BFs with each other for two months straight. Dedication! 👶 Baby – You just became friends with this person. 😎 Face With Sunglasses – One of your best friends is one of their best friends.
What does the 🔥 emoji mean? If you see the 🔥 next to your friend's name on the Chat screen, that means you and your friend are on a Snapstreak — you and your friend have Snapped each other (not chatted) within a 24 hour window for more than three consecutive days.
Red heart: its meaning expresses love or romance. Orange heart: related to the love that can exist between two friends. Yellow heart: a pure and sincere love linked to friendship. Green heart: related to health, hope and nature. Blue heart: signifies trust and security.
A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, closed smile turning up to rosy cheeks. Often expresses genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings. An emoji form of the ^^ emoticon.
What does does Hugging Face emoji 🤗 mean? Bring it in, there, buddy. The hugging face emoji is meant to depict a smiley offering a hug. But, it's often just used to show excitement, express affection and gratitude, offer comfort and consolation, or signal a rebuff.
😊 Shown next to a user when you are one of their top best friends. Face with sunglasses. 😎 Shown when a contact is also the best friend of your best friend.
As its fuzzy, cleft appearance looks like a plump rear end, the peach emoji quickly came to stand for buttocks on social media and in text messages, especially a woman's in sexual contexts.
The yellow heart emoji, 💛, can convey love, just like any other heart symbol or emoji, but its yellow color often gets used to show liking and friendship (as opposed to romantic love). Its color also works with expressions of happiness—and with all things yellow, from sports team colors to dresses.
Portraying two heart symbols, with the larger one bigger and in the front, the two hearts emoji is widely used to express love, affection, pleasure, or happiness.
Like with this guy, grimacing face emoji, whose tone is just all over the place. It usually conveys mild discomfort and disapproval, often for humorous effect.
The yellow heart on Snapchat indicates that you and a friend have become best friends. This means that you and the friend have sent snaps to each other the most over the past seven days.
The Snapchat pink hearts emoji shows that you have been #1 best friends (BFs) with somebody for two months straight. You aren't limited to just one best friend and can have up to six, though only one contact can be your #1 BF on Snapchat.
Best Friends are the friends you Snap and Chat with the most! They're featured front-and-center on the Send To screen, and the Chat section of your profile! You can have up to eight Best Friends, and they're updated regularly.
In recent years, a “fruit code” has emerged for women to share their relationship status on social media. 🍒 means you're in a committed relationship since the emoji features 2 cherries joined by their stems. It might also mean “twins” or “best friends.” “We're engaged!
If you see the fire emoji on your friends list, it means that you're on a Snapstreak with that person. A Snapstreak occurs when you and your friend have snapped each other for at least three days continuously.
Like the many other heart emoji such as Red Heart ❤️ and Blue Heart 💙, the Purple Heart emoji 💜 is generally used to convey love and other strong, affectionate, positive feelings. Bae appreciation post 💖💚💜💛 I love you ❤️ pic.twitter.com/4ECbregGUs.
The Blue Heart emoji 💙 is used very similarly to the Red Heart ❤️ in digital communication. It can convey a wide range of loving, affectionate, and happy feelings. It's especially used to express those feelings for things that have some literal or symbolic connection to blue.
You'll often see a 💚 used when expressing a platonic love for a friend or acquaintance. Try adding this green heart to a heart-warming message to tell a friend, “I care about you.” “You're the bestest friend a girl could ask for 💚”
Thus, this emoji is often used to show affirmation. Aside from that, this emoji can also be used to refer to the number zero. In relation to this, people also send this emoji to note the emptiness or nothingness of something.
Among uwu's many uses, some girls also use it to express shyness or a cute sort of sheepishness. This is often accompanied by the “👉👈” emojis, which convey a pleading or demure meekness.
Booty calls refer to a (usually casual) offer to hook up. If you see the 🍆 (eggplant) emoji and you really want to get intimate with this person, send them the emoji phrase that's code for “booty call:” 🍑📞.
It's used to communicate a range of feelings, including smugness, self-confidence, self-indulgence, mischief, cheeky humor, and general satisfaction. 😏 Smirking Face especially implies, however, flirtation and sexual innuendo.
If you see the two pink hearts beside a friend's username, it means that this friend has been your number one best friend on Snapchat, or your "Super BFF," for two months in a row.
Send a snap featuring something they like, and before you know it, you're flirting! Here are some more specific tips on how to flirt using Snapchat: Send a picture of something that reminded you of them. Or say, “This looks like you.” Don't be afraid to tease someone.
The middle finger emoji represents the physical act of raising one's middle finger—considered an obscene gesture in many cultures—and is used for offensive or humorous effect.
An eggplant 🍆 (or sometimes a 🍌 ) is used for male genitalia, and a taco 🌮 for female genitalia. Grapes 🍇 also accompany male genitalia, and a peach 🍑 can be code for butt. Cherries 🍒 means breasts.
What does 💖 Sparkling Heart emoji mean? Twinkle, twinkle, little heart: The sparkling heart emoji variously shows love and affection, often with a happy, playful, or sweet tone.
The yellow heart emoji, 💛, can convey love, just like any other heart symbol or emoji, but its yellow color often gets used to show liking and friendship (as opposed to romantic love).
It is commonly used to represent love, support, close bonds, and admiration for things that have some relation to the color orange, from the season of fall to sports teams that use orange.
What does Red Heart emoji ❤️ mean? The red heart emoji is used in warm emotional contexts. It can be used to express gratitude, love, happiness, hope, or even flirtatiousness.
Booty calls refer to a (usually casual) offer to hook up. If you see the 🍆 (eggplant) emoji and you really want to get intimate with this person, send them the emoji phrase that's code for “booty call:” 🍑📞.
The Blue Heart emoji 💙 depicts a classic representation of heart, colored blue. It can be used to express love, support, admiration, happiness, and excitement—particularly toward various things that have some relation to the color blue, from the Smurfs to Duke University to autism awareness.
Who uses 💜 Purple Heart emoji? Like the many other heart emoji such as Red Heart ❤️ and Blue Heart 💙, the Purple Heart emoji 💜 is generally used to convey love and other strong, affectionate, positive feelings.
Like the many other heart emojis, such as Sparkling Heart emoji 💖 , Beating Heart emoji 💓, or Growing Heart emoji 💗, the Heart Exclamation emoji ❣️ is used to convey love, affection, and other positive feelings.
While a ❤️ (red heart) emoji often refers to a traditional romance, a 💙 draws attention to a unique “bromance,” or, a connection between buddies that are as close as brothers. A 💙 is also appropriate for a casual friendship with someone you occasionally catch up with.
This emoji is used to convey such lust and longing as well as naptime—a less sexy time to drool. People seen as stupid are sometimes mocked as slobbering and slack-jawed, so the emoji also sometimes gets used to call someone or something “idiotic.”
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