Red Heart Emoji ❤
Emoji Meaning
Bold colored heart is used as an ornament for text decoration. It belongs to the category of punctuation marks. This black heart emoji expresses love and warm feelings. It can also be used to indicate health, cardiology, number of lives in video games.
The character is derived from the set of glyphs ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100. It is not clear how this glyph was used in print.
Most systems display this icon in red, even though the Unicode name starts with black. There are more heart emojis featured in other colors: 💙, 💚, 💛, 💜, 🧡.
The symbol “Red Heart” is included in the “Punctuation mark ornaments” subblock of the “Dingbats” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Heart” subcategory of the “Smileys & Emotion” category.
Synonyms
Red Heart, Love.
| Unicode Name | Black Heart Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Dingbats |
| Unicode Subblock | Punctuation mark ornaments |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Emoji Subcategory | Heart |
| Emoji Name | Red Heart |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2764 |
| Simple case change | 2764 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 9D A4 | 226 157 164 | 14851492 | 11100010 10011101 10100100 |
| UTF-16BE | 27 64 | 39 100 | 10084 | 00100111 01100100 |
| UTF-16LE | 64 27 | 100 39 | 25639 | 01100100 00100111 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 27 64 | 0 0 39 100 | 10084 | 00000000 00000000 00100111 01100100 |
| UTF-32LE | 64 27 00 00 | 100 39 0 0 | 1680277504 | 01100100 00100111 00000000 00000000 |
