Heart Symbols

How to copy a heart symbol

1. Find the heart you like in the grid above.
2. Tap it once to copy it, then paste it into your message, bio or document.
3. To build a row or a border, switch on collect mode, tap several hearts (and spaces or dots if you like) and copy the whole tray at once.

Text hearts vs emoji hearts

There are two kinds of heart. A heart text symbol is a character from old symbol sets, such as playing card suits and printers' ornaments. It takes the colour of the text around it, so it looks neat in a black-and-white bio. Emoji hearts are always drawn in full colour by your phone. Some hearts can switch between the two, and that is where the confusion starts.

Fun fact: ღ isn't a heart at all. It is a letter of the Georgian alphabet that happens to look like one, and people have borrowed it for decoration for years.

Why your heart turns red (and how to stop it)

❤ and ♥ have a plain version and an emoji version. A hidden marker called a variation selector, placed just after the heart, asks for one look or the other. Most phone keyboards insert the red emoji form, and some apps show the emoji even when you paste the plain one. If you want a heart that always matches your text colour, use ♡ or ❥, which have no emoji form. If you want guaranteed colour, use a real emoji heart instead.

How to type a heart on your keyboard

• Windows heart alt code: hold Alt and press 3 on the numeric keypad (Num Lock on) to get ♥. It works in many Windows apps but needs a real number pad, not the number row.
• Microsoft Word: type 2661, then press Alt + X, and it changes into ♡. The code 2665 gives ♥.
• Windows emoji panel: press Win + . and type "heart" to search.
• Mac: press Ctrl + Cmd + Space and search "heart" in the Character Viewer. It shows both text and emoji hearts.
• Android and iPhone: open the emoji keyboard and search "heart". For a text heart like ♡, save it once as a text shortcut (Text Replacement on iPhone, personal dictionary on Gboard).
• The classic <3: some chat apps turn it into a heart automatically, but many leave it as typed.

Heart emoji colours and what they usually mean

Meanings are informal and change between friend groups and countries, but these are the common readings:

• ❤️ Red: love and romance, the classic.
• 🧡 Orange: care and warm friendship.
• 💛 Yellow: happiness and friendship.
• 💚 Green: nature, growth, sometimes jealousy as a joke.
• 💙 Blue: trust, calm, loyalty.
• 💜 Purple: kindness; K-pop fans also use it a lot.
• 🖤 Black: dark humour, gothic style, or sadness.
• 🤍 White: pure, soft, minimal aesthetic.

Newer colours such as the pink heart 🩷 were added to Unicode in 2022, so older phones may show a box instead. If you want everyone to see it, stick to the classic colours.

Aesthetic hearts: borders and combos for bios

A few small hearts go a long way. Try these ideas:

• Framed name: ♡ 𝒜𝓃𝒶𝓃𝓎𝒶 ♡ or ♡ ᴋᴀʙɪʀ ♡.
• Hearts between letters: l♥o♥v♥e y♥o♥u for a sweet one-line message.
• A divider: a row of ♡ with spaces between them separates sections of your bio.
• Bullets: start each line of a list with ❥ instead of a dash.

For ready-made sets, browse emoji combos. Bows and hearts are the heart of the preppy fonts look, and the aesthetic fonts page pairs soft hearts with matching letters. Want every other kind of symbol too? Go back to all symbols or see the star symbols.

One honest note: screen readers read each heart aloud by its name, such as "white heart suit". Keep hearts as decoration, and put the words that matter in plain text.