Black Heart Emoji
Copy 🖤 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 🖤 mean?
A black heart. Dark humour, grief, aesthetic, or solidarity — it is unusually context-dependent.
🖤 is the black heart emoji. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group, in the heart set, and was approved as part of Emoji 3.0.
People also search for it as black, evil, heart, wicked.
How to use 🖤
Used for a gothic or minimal aesthetic, for mourning, and as a marker of support during protest movements.
Click the copy button above to put 🖤 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :black_heart: directly.
Good to know
Added in 2016 after sustained demand. Before it existed, people used ♠️ or ⬛ as substitutes.
Technical details
| Name | Black Heart |
|---|---|
| Character | 🖤 |
| Codepoint | U+1F5A4 |
| HTML entity | 🖤 |
| CSS code | \1F5A4 |
| Shortcode | :black_heart: |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | heart |
| Emoji version | Emoji 3.0 |
| Keywords | black, evil, heart, wicked |