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Heart Symbol ❤ — Copy & Paste ♥ ♡ ❣ and More

┤ THE HEART ├ ┤ #004 ├

❤

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❤

CLASSIC

♥

CARD SUIT

♡

OUTLINE

❣

EXCLAMATION

❥

ROTATED

❦

FLORAL

PURE ASCII

ღ

CURLY

♡⃛

SPARKLE

(♥ω♥)

HEART EYES

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The classic text heart ❤ is U+2764 HEAVY BLACK HEART — "black" in the typographic sense of solid/filled, which is why it renders dark in plain text. Its older sibling ♥ (U+2665) comes from the card-suit block and has been in character sets since the 1990s; the outline ♡ (U+2661) completes the family.

When you see a red heart in chat, you are looking at the same U+2764 followed by an invisible variation selector (U+FE0F) that switches it to emoji presentation: ❤️. And the only heart that is genuinely ASCII? The humble <3.

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CHARNAMECODE POINTHTML ENTITY

❤HEAVY BLACK HEARTU+2764❤

♥BLACK HEART SUITU+2665&hearts;

♡WHITE HEART SUITU+2661♡

❣HEAVY HEART EXCLAMATION MARK ORNAMENTU+2763❣

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▸ Windows

The one emoticon with a real Alt code: Alt+3 on the numpad gives ♥. For ❤ use the emoji picker (Win+.) and search "heart".

▸ macOS / iOS

Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space for the character viewer and search "heart", or set a text replacement like ;h → ❤.

▸ HTML / CSS

Use &hearts; for ♥ or ❤ for ❤. Append ︎ to force text style, ️ to force emoji style.

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Windows / macOS / Linux✓

iOS / Android✓

Discord / Slack / WhatsApp△ may turn red ❤️

X / Twitter✓

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[+] Why does my heart turn red when I paste it?

Many chat apps auto-apply emoji presentation, silently turning ❤ into ❤️. If you want the plain text heart, try the card-suit ♥ (U+2665) — apps are far less eager to emojify it — or append the text variation selector U+FE0E.

[+] What is the difference between ❤, ♥ and ❤️?

❤ (U+2764) is the heavy black heart, a text character. ♥ (U+2665) is the heart from the playing-card suits. ❤️ is ❤ plus the invisible variation selector U+FE0F requesting colored emoji rendering. Same heart, three costumes.

[+] Is there a real ASCII heart?

Only <3 — a less-than sign and the digit three. Every glyph heart (❤ ♥ ♡) lives outside the 128 ASCII characters. That is also why <3 still works in systems that strip Unicode.

[+] Why is it called a BLACK heart when it shows red?

Unicode names describe the glyph shape, not its color: "black" means filled, "white" means outline. Fonts and emoji sets choose the actual color — most render U+2764 red, which is why the name confuses everyone.

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→ check mark ✓→ bullet point •→ shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯→ all emoticons

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