Red heart Emoji

Smileys

A classic, vibrant red heart shape. It serves as the universal icon for romance, affection, and strong positive feelings, stripped of any complicated detail.

Usage Context

This is the go-to character for expressing love, support, or gratitude in text messages. It is frequently sent alongside 🥰 to show intense fondness or grouped with others like 🧡 or 💛 to create a colorful display of heart variants.

History

Based on the iconic heart shape long used in Western culture, this symbol was brought into the digital fold when it was included in early Japanese mobile carrier character sets. It was officially standardized in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, long before the modern emoji era, ensuring it would display correctly across early email and chat platforms.

Details

Glyph

❤

Unicode

U+2764

Shortcode

:emoji_u2764:

HTML Entity

❤

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory heart

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository