Heavy heart

Meaning and uses

The original dingbat heart from the Zapf Dingbats set. On its own it usually displays in the colour of your text, although many apps turn it into the red heart emoji. Copy this one when you want the plain shape.

Unicode details

❤ is the Unicode character named HEAVY BLACK HEART, code point U+2764, in the Dingbats block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).

It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “red heart”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.

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 “red 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 “red heart”.
• On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2764, then Space or Enter.
• In HTML, use ❤. In a CSS content property, use "\2764".