U+2764 U+FE0F
❤️ Red heart
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Subcategory
- Hearts
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 6.0 (2010)
- Emoji version
- 0.6 (2010)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the ❤️ emoji means
The classic heart. It carries romantic love, but just as often stands for warmth towards friends and family, or simple approval — which is why it became the default reaction button in most messengers.
Safe in almost any context. Colour matters: 💜 reads as friendship or fandom, 🖤 as grief or dark humour, while the red one stays the neutral, sincere choice.
Chat examples
What ❤️ is made of
This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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❤
symbol
U+2764 -
️
«draw as a picture» marker
U+FE0F
Will your readers see ❤️
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the ❤️ emoji is used
The ❤️ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how red heart is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- ❤️ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
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OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
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Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | red heart |
|---|---|
| Русский | алое сердце |
| Deutsch | rotes Herz |
| Español | corazón rojo |
| Français | cœur rouge |
| Polski | czerwone serce |
| Dansk | rødt hjerte |
| Українська | червоне серце |
| Português | coração vermelho |
Unicode CLDR 48
Collections with this symbol
Similar emoji and smileys
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- 💙 blue heart
- ❣️ heart exclamation
- 💔 broken heart
- 💓 beating heart
- 💚 green heart
- 🖤 black heart
- 💛 yellow heart
- 🩷 pink heart
- 💌 love letter
- 💘 heart with arrow
- 💝 heart with ribbon
- 💟 heart decoration
- ❤️🔥 heart on fire
- ❤️🩹 mending heart
- 🧡 orange heart
- 🩵 light blue heart
- 🤎 brown heart
- 🩶 grey heart
- 🤍 white heart