❤️Red Heart Emoji

❤️ red heart — U+2764 U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 25 hearts emojis under Smileys & Emotion.

What ❤️ red heart means

Hearts carry more social range than almost any other family: romance, friendship, condolence, fandom and plain acknowledgement, with the color usually holding the nuance. ❤️ needs an invisible variation selector to render in color, which is why it sometimes appears as a black outline in older software. 🤍 and 🤎 only arrived in 2019.

Unicode tags this one emotion, heart and love and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Hearts.

Copy variants

red heart carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ❤️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

❤U+2764red heart
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2764 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`❤️`
HTML decimal	`❤️`
CSS	`\2764\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{2764}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U00002764\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u2764\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{2764}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{2764}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{2764}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9D%A4%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9D A4 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`2764 FE0F`
Base64	`4p2k77iP`
Decimal	`10084 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

emotion
heart
love
red

Appears in these collections

How to type ❤️

Windows — press Win + . and search “red heart”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “emotion”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2764 and Enter.
HTML — paste ❤️.

How ❤️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

❤️Apple
❤️Segoe
❤️Noto
❤️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the ❤️ red heart emoji mean?+

❤️ is the red heart emoji, tagged emotion, heart and love. Hearts carry more social range than almost any other family: romance, friendship, condolence, fandom and plain acknowledgement, with the color usually holding the nuance. ❤️ needs an invisible variation selector to render in color, which is why it sometimes appears as a black outline in older software. 🤍 and 🤎 only arrived in 2019.

What is the Unicode code for ❤️?+

red heart is U+2764 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ❤️, in CSS \2764\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2764}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ❤️ emoji added?+

red heart got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ❤️ red heart.