What does 🖤 mean?
Black heart: dark humor, grief, or simply loving black.
Its official Unicode name is BLACK HEART and its CLDR short name is "black heart" (in Hungarian: "fekete szív"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- black
- evil
- heart
- wicked
In Hungarian: fekete, gonosz, rossz, szív
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🖤 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F5A4. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- BLACK HEART
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- fekete szív
- English name (CLDR)
- black heart
- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0 (2016)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · heart
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :black_heart:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 🖤 emoji mean?
Black heart: dark humor, grief, or simply loving black.
How do I type the 🖤 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "black".
When was the 🖤 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 3.0 (2016), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.