Heart Symbols ♡ to Copy and Paste

❤ vs ❤️: why the same heart looks black or red

❤ and ❤️ are the same character, U+2764 "Heavy Black Heart". The red one carries an invisible extra character, U+FE0F, which asks for the emoji style. Without it, the Unicode emoji standard treats ❤ as a plain text symbol, so it can show up black. Each app decides what to do with the bare one, and they don't all agree.

I've noticed this myself: a heart that looked red on an iPhone showed up as a flat black symbol somewhere else. When we tested this page in Chrome on Windows 11 in October 2026, the bare ❤ in this page's opening line came out black, while ❤️ with the selector came out red.

Only three hearts have both styles. That's what the switch at the top of the tool controls:

• As is: no selector, like most heart sites. The app picks.
• Text ❤︎: adds U+FE0E, "show as text". Good for a minimal, one-color bio.
• Emoji ❤️: adds U+FE0F, "show as emoji". Red wherever emoji work.

The other text hearts, like ♡, ❥ and ❦, have no emoji version at all. They always follow the text color, so they turn white in dark mode while emoji hearts keep their color. One more detail: the hidden selector counts as a character, so a "Text" or "Emoji" heart uses two characters of a bio limit, not one.

Which heart symbols show as boxes (□)?

A box means the device has nothing to draw for that character. With hearts there are two causes: the emoji is newer than the phone's last update, or the "heart" is really a letter from an alphabet the phone's fonts don't cover. The year a heart joined Unicode tells you most of what you need:

Every heart in the tool has a matching dot: green for safe, amber for newer, orange for 2022, purple for borrowed letters. If you're writing a name for people on all kinds of phones, stick to green.

For what it's worth, every heart on this page displayed properly in Chrome on Windows 11 when we checked it, including the 2022 hearts and the borrowed letters. Boxes are mostly a problem on phones that haven't been updated in a while, and in apps that ship their own fonts.

The "aesthetic" hearts are letters in disguise

The tiny hearts that fill aesthetic bios weren't made as hearts. Unicode's own names give them away. ᥫ᭡ is the Tai Le letter E followed by a Balinese musical symbol. ꨄ is the Cham letter "ai", from a script used in Vietnam and Cambodia. 𖹭 is a small letter "a" from Medefaidrin, a script from Nigeria, and ღ is the Georgian letter "ghan". They look cute by coincidence. That's also why they're the first to break: if an app's font has no Cham or Medefaidrin letters, your heart becomes □. A screen reader may also read out the letter's name instead of "heart".

What does each heart color mean?

🤍 is the white heart, added to emoji in 2019 and used for gentle love and clean, minimal bios. 🫀 is the anatomical heart from 2020, the real organ, used for health topics or very sincere feelings. For the rest, here's how people usually read each color. These are habits, not rules, and context always wins.

How to type a heart symbol on any keyboard

There's no ♡ key on any standard keyboard. The quickest way is to copy it from this page, but every system has a built-in route too:

1. Windows: with Num Lock on, hold Alt and type 3 on the number pad for ♥. For emoji hearts, press Windows + . and search "heart".
2. Mac: press Control + Command + Space and type "heart" in the search box.
3. iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard and search "heart". Text hearts like ♡ usually aren't there, so save one as a text shortcut.
4. Microsoft Word: type 2661 and press Alt + X to get ♡. It works with any code from the tool or the list below, like 2764 for ❤.
5. HTML: ♥ gives ♥, ♡ gives ♡ and ❤️ gives a red ❤️.

And the original: <3. Tilt your head to the left and it's a heart. It worked before emoji existed, and some apps still swap it for ❤️ as you type.

Full heart symbol list with names and codes

Every single heart from the tool, with its name, Unicode code point, the year it was added and what it usually means. Handy if you write HTML, need the code for Word, or just want to know what you're pasting.

Where the ♥ shape comes from

The heart symbol looks nothing like a real heart (🫀). According to Wikipedia's history of the symbol, it became a sign of love in 15th-century Europe, and the indented red heart has been on playing cards since the late 1400s. That card suit is why Unicode calls ♥ and ♡ the "Black Heart Suit" and "White Heart Suit". The 1977 "I ♥ NY" campaign later turned the heart into shorthand for the word "love", which is why "I ♡ you" reads so naturally today.

Hearts in bios, names and game tags

Came here for a quick heart copy and paste for your profile? These lines are built from the tool above and show how much one or two hearts can do:

sourdough beginner 🍞 ⋆ ♡ ⋆ weekend trail runner
3 years of you ❤️‍🔥 still my favorite plus-one
☙ Maya ❧
──── ♡ ────

• One or two hearts beat a whole row in a name. Save the long combos for captions and dividers.
• Hearts and bows go together. ୨♡୧ and 🎀♡ are coquette favorites, and the bow symbols page has the rest.
• Check the count. An Instagram bio allows 150 characters and a TikTok name 30, and ❤️‍🔥 alone uses 4, or 5 in apps that count emoji parts differently. The tray shows the count, and the preview panel checks it against each app's limit.
• Usernames won't take hearts. @handles allow only letters, numbers and a few marks. Display names and bios usually accept them.
• Game names are strict. Many game name fields accept only letters and numbers, so test a heart before you pay for a name change.

Want the name itself in cursive or gothic letters? Type it into the heart styles above the article for a quick version, or open the font generator to pick from 200+ styles and add your heart after.