Red Heart emoji
Type :heart: · #2 most-used emoji · Smileys & emotion
Unicode name Red Heart · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What ❤️ means
The plain red heart is the safest warmth there is: sign-offs, family chats, reacting to good news. It reads as sincere rather than romantic in almost every context, which is exactly why it never goes out of style.
If you are trying to read into it
The plain red heart reads as sincere rather than romantic in most contexts, which is precisely why it is everywhere. Between friends it means care, in a family chat it means love with no subtext, and from a colleague it means a message landed well. Reading romance into a single red heart is the most common misread there is. What carries more signal is a heart where a 👍 would have done.
How to type ❤️ without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :hear
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick ❤️ from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:heart: :red_heart: Emoticon trigger
Typing <3 followed by a
space becomes ❤️ automatically.
❤️ in HTML, CSS and code
Red Heart is a sequence of 2 codepoints, which is why pasting only the first one renders something else. Use the whole thing.
- Unicode
- U+2764 U+FE0F
- HTML
- ❤️
- JavaScript
- '\u{2764}\u{FE0F}'
- CSS content
- "\2764 \FE0F"
- Python
- '\u2764\uFE0F'
- URL-encoded
- %E2%9D%A4%EF%B8%8F
Related emojis
:cupid: 💓 :beating_heart: 💕 :two_hearts: 🩷 :pink_heart: 💛 :yellow_heart: 💚 :green_heart: 💙 :blue_heart: 🩵 :light_blue_heart: 💜 :purple_heart: 🩶 :gray_heart: All smileys & emotion shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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