Heavy Black Heart
Part of Stars & Dingbats
Heavy Black Heart has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ❤
- Unicode
- U+2764
About this symbol
The heart became shorthand for love on a famous scale in 1977, when the designer Milton Glaser drew I ♥ NY for a New York State tourism campaign. He sketched it in a taxi, and the design has been copied for almost every city since.
In Unicode names, “black” means filled, so the heavy black heart is usually shown red.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- HEAVY BLACK HEART
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Dingbats
- Unicode group
- Punctuation mark ornaments
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- Displayed with a red color when used in emoji style
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