Black heart emoji 🖤
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F5A4
What 🖤 means
Black heart 🖤 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: black, evil, heart, wicked.
Those words also drive emoji search: try black or evil on your phone to find 🖤.
On the emoji keyboard, 🖤 sits with the hearts (25 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 🩶 🤍 💌 💘.
Will 🖤 show on my friend's phone?
Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016), 🖤 is old enough that all current phones, computers and apps show it.
How to type 🖤
To find 🖤 quickly, type black heart into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type black heart.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type black heart in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type black heart.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🖤 as one code point, U+1F5A4: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F5A4 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🖤 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🖤 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F5A4"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5A4} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%96%A4 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 96 A4 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🖤 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | black heart |
| Português | coração preto |
| Español | corazón negro |
| Italiano | cuore nero |
| Français | cœur noir |
| Deutsch | schwarzes Herz |
| Türkçe | siyah kalp |
| Bahasa Indonesia | hati hitam |
| Polski | czarne serce |
| Русский | черное сердце |
| 日本語 | 黒いハート |
| 한국어 | 검은색 하트 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the black heart emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🖤 "black heart" and links it with black, evil, heart, wicked. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the hearts subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the black heart emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the black heart emoji?
To find 🖤 quickly, type black heart into the emoji search.