Heart Symbols ♡ Copy and Paste

Every heart character worth having, from the outlined ♡ to the curly ❥, plus colourful heart emoji, cute framed hearts and lines for bios. Tap a heart to copy it, or tap several to build a row in the bar above.

Text Heart Symbols

Single hearts that take on the colour of your text.

Colored Heart Emoji

The emoji version of the heart in every official colour.

Heart Emoji with Meaning

Sparkling, beating, broken and mending hearts.

Cute Heart Combos

Hearts wrapped in wings, brackets and tiny stars.

Heart Rows

Short runs of hearts for captions and replies.

Hearts and Card Suits

The heart alongside the other three suits.

Heart Dividers and Lines

Paste between paragraphs or under a bio heading.

Explore Symbols, Emoticons and Fonts

What Are Heart Symbols?

Heart symbols are Unicode characters shaped like a heart. The two best known are the outline ♡ (U+2661, white heart suit) and the solid ♥ (U+2665, black heart suit), both from the Miscellaneous Symbols block, where they sit next to the other playing card suits. The Dingbats block adds a second family designed as printer's ornaments: the heavy heart ❤ (U+2764), the rotated heavy heart bullet ❥ (U+2765), the heart exclamation ❣ (U+2763) and the floral hearts ❦ and ❧ (U+2766 and U+2767).

A few hearts on this page are not officially hearts at all. ღ is a letter of the Georgian alphabet, ۵ is the digit five as written in Persian and Urdu, and ఌ is a Telugu letter. People adopted them because they look like hand-drawn hearts, and they work fine in bios and messages. Just be aware that anyone who reads those scripts sees a letter or a number, not a heart.

Because every heart here is text, it can be pasted almost anywhere and costs one or two characters. The downside is accessibility: a screen reader announces the official name, so ♥ may be read as "black heart suit" and ღ as a Georgian letter. A single heart after a sentence is harmless, but a long heart border can be tedious to listen to, so keep important words outside the decoration.

Why Use Heart Symbols?

A heart is the quickest way to add warmth to text. "See you tonight" and "See you tonight ♡" say the same thing, but the second one lands softer. That small shift is why hearts show up in so many sign-offs, captions and replies to friends.

Text hearts and emoji hearts do different jobs. The emoji ❤️ is big, red and unmistakable, which is great in a message but can overwhelm a carefully styled bio. The text heart ♡ is drawn in the same colour and weight as the surrounding letters, so it blends into the line and looks more like typography than a sticker. Many people who build aesthetic profiles prefer the outline ♡ for exactly that reason, often paired with lettering from the cute fonts generator.

Different hearts also carry slightly different moods. The curly ❥ feels romantic and old-fashioned, the ❦ ornament feels bookish, the outline ♡ reads as soft and cute, and the solid ♥ is the most neutral. Heart emoji add colour meanings on top: yellow for friendship, purple is often linked with fan communities, black for dark humour or goth style, and the mending heart ❤️‍🩹 for recovery. Those meanings are conventions rather than rules, so read the room.

For the rest of the decorative toolkit, the star symbols page pairs well with hearts in dividers, and the aesthetic symbols page has more soft sparkles.

Where Can You Use Heart Symbols?

Hearts are welcome on almost every platform. A few specifics:

If a heart turns into an emoji when you did not want it to, that is the variation selector issue explained below. If it turns into a box, the viewer's device lacks the font, which mainly happens with the rarer script letters such as ꨄ.

How to Copy and Paste Heart Symbols

  1. Pick a heart from the sections above: a plain text heart, a coloured emoji, a cute combo or a full divider.
  2. Tap it once to copy. The heart is also added to the bar at the top, so you can build a custom row by tapping more.
  3. Drop the heart into your profile, post or message, or press Copy in the bar to take the entire row at once.

Tips for Using Heart Symbols

Text heart or emoji heart

The heavy heart ❤ is one of the characters that can appear either way. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F (❤️) asks for the red emoji, while U+FE0E (❤︎) asks for a flat text heart in your font colour. The page offers both versions ready to copy. Without either selector, the app chooses, and many phones show the emoji. The same applies to ♥ and ❣. Some apps ignore the text selector entirely, so test it where you plan to post.

Heart codes on a keyboard

On Windows, holding Alt and typing 3 on the numeric keypad has long produced ♥ in many programs, although results vary by app and keyboard layout. In Microsoft Word, type 2661 and press Alt + X to get ♡, or 2665 for ♥. On a Mac, open the Character Viewer with Control + Command + Space and search for "heart". In HTML, the entity ♥ renders the solid suit heart. On phones, the emoji keyboard only offers the emoji versions, so copying is the easiest way to get a text heart.

Mix shapes, not colours

A row that alternates ♡ and ♥ looks deliberate. A row mixing five different emoji colours can look busy unless you are going for a rainbow on purpose.

Keep combos short in names

Display names often have limits of 30 characters or fewer, and some combos like 𓆩♡𓆪 count as more characters than they look. Paste and check before saving.

Heart Symbols FAQ

How do I get the heart symbol ♡ on my keyboard?

Most phone keyboards only offer emoji hearts. For the text version, copy ♡ from this page, or save it as a text replacement shortcut in your keyboard settings so typing a short word inserts it.

What is the difference between ♥ and ❤️?

♥ is the heart suit from playing cards and usually displays as a flat text character. ❤️ is the heavy heart plus an emoji variation selector, so it displays as the red emoji. They are different Unicode characters.

What is the Alt code for a heart?

Alt + 3 on the numeric keypad produces ♥ in many Windows programs. It relies on a legacy code page, so it does not work everywhere. In Word, typing 2665 followed by Alt + X is more reliable.

Why does my text heart turn into an emoji?

Characters like ❤ have both text and emoji styles. If no variation selector is attached, the app picks one, and iPhones often choose the emoji. Copy the version with the text selector (❤︎) to request the plain style.

What does ღ mean?

ღ is the Georgian letter "ghani", which makes a gh sound. Outside Georgian text it is used purely as a decorative heart because of its shape.

What does the white heart ♡ mean in a bio?

Usually nothing specific; it adds a soft, cute touch. Some people use it to mark a partner, a favourite account or a fandom, but there is no fixed meaning.

How do I make a heart with a keyboard?

The simplest keyboard heart is <3, typed with the less-than sign and the number three. Some apps convert it into an emoji automatically. For a real heart character, copy ♡ or ♥.

What do the different colored hearts mean?

Common readings: red for love, yellow and orange for friendship, green for envy or nature, blue for trust, purple for fandoms, black for dark humour, white for pure or supportive feelings. These are social habits, not official definitions.

Are heart symbols allowed in usernames?

Display names on most platforms accept them. Handles and login usernames usually do not, since they are restricted to letters, numbers and a few punctuation marks.

What is the ❥ symbol called?

Its official Unicode name is "rotated heavy black heart bullet" (U+2765). It comes from the Dingbats block and is often used as a curly, romantic bullet point.