Black heart

Meaning and uses

A solid black heart emoji. It is used for dark humour, gothic and alternative style, grief and sympathy, or simply because black matches an outfit or a feed.

Unicode details

🖤 is the Unicode character named BLACK HEART, code point U+1F5A4, in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block. It was added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It is an emoji, listed under the name “black heart”, so phones and most apps draw it in colour, and each platform has its own design.

Tap a code to copy it:

How to type 🖤

• On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
• On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “black heart”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
• On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “black heart”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1f5a4, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use 🖤. In a CSS content property, use "\1F5A4".