U+2764 U+FE0F

❤️ Red heart

emotion heart love red

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.

  1. symbol U+2764
  2. «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

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