black heart 🖤 Meaning, Copy & Platform Appearance
Use black heart 🖤 Anywhere
Grab the black heart 🖤 code by clicking above. Once copied, you can paste it anywhere on the web.
What does 🖤 black heart Mean?
The black heart 🖤 is love drained of brightness — it reads as either grief, dark humour and emotional flatness, or as pure aesthetic: sleek, minimal, monochrome. Both senses are current, so context decides: "one year today 🖤" under a memorial photo means mourning, while "new fit 🖤" under an all-black outfit means style. It is not an insult heart; sending it doesn't mean you dislike someone.
- 💡General Use: black heart
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
Unicode added it in 9.0 (2016) after years of users typing ♥ in black text to get the effect, and it was immediately claimed by goth, emo and alt-fashion communities, then by the TikTok and Instagram "dark academia" and streetwear aesthetics. It also became a widely used marker of mourning and solidarity after public tragedies, appearing in bio names during periods of national grief in Turkey and elsewhere. Because it's monochrome it's the one heart that doesn't clash with any brand palette, which is why designers and photographers default to it in captions.
How 🖤 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the black heart emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use black heart?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 🖤
Messaging
Hey, check this out 🖤
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 🖤
Status
Feeling 🖤 today
How to Type black heart on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "black heart"
- Select 🖤
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "black heart"
- Select 🖤
black heart HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | black heart | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F5A4 | |
| HTML Entity | 🖤 | |
| HTML Hex | 🖤 | |
| CSS Content | \01F5A4 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F5A4} | |
| Shortcode (Discord, Slack, GitHub) | :black_heart: | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 3.0 | |
| Year Added | 2016 | |
| Skin Tone Support | No |
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Graphics come from open-licensed sets: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0, Twitter/X), Noto Color Emoji (Apache 2.0, Google) and OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free to use with attribution.
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