Heart symbol to copy and paste

What is the heart symbol?

A heart you can type: ♡ and ♥, the white and black heart suits of playing cards, have been in Unicode since 1993 with the bolder ❤, so they paste as text anywhere. The colored hearts are emoji, ❤️ 💛 💜 🖤, drawn by each phone in its own style; the pink, light blue and grey ones are the newest, from 2022.

Over 100 of them are here, each named, from the plain outline heart to big hearts drawn of emoji. Above them the die dresses a heart in sparkles, wings or brackets: it can make over 1,000 combos.

How to copy and paste a heart

1. Find the heart by its kind, or search for what you want: pink, broken, wings.
2. Tap it. It is copied at once, and a note at the bottom of the screen shows which.
3. Paste it into a message, a bio, a caption or a name, like any other letter.

What each heart color means

• Red heart ❤️: love and romance, the one that means it most.
• Pink heart 🩷: sweetness, a crush, gentle care.
• Orange heart 🧡: warm friendship, care without romance.
• Yellow heart 💛: friendship and happiness; on Snapchat, your best friend.
• Green heart 💚: nature, health and growth, now and then envy.
• Blue heart 💙: trust, loyalty and calm.
• Light blue heart 🩵: peace, softness, the sky and the sea.
• Purple heart 💜: devoted love, the favorite of K-pop fans.
• Brown heart 🤎: warmth and comfort, and solidarity.
• Black heart 🖤: dark humor, goth style or grief.
• Grey heart 🩶: quiet feelings, calm or a little sad.
• White heart 🤍: pure love, peace and sympathy.
• Broken heart 💔 and mending heart ❤️‍🩹: heartbreak, and getting over it.

How to type a heart on a keyboard

• Windows: Alt and 3 on the number pad gives ♥, and Windows key with a period opens every emoji heart.
• Mac: Control, Command and Space open the character viewer, hearts included.
• iPhone and Android: the emoji keyboard has the colored hearts; ♡ and ♥ are quicker to copy from here.
• Anywhere: <3 is the heart of the keyboard itself, and some chat apps turn it into ❤️.
• On a web page, &hearts; writes ♥.

Cute, aesthetic and big hearts

A bio rarely uses a heart alone. Brackets and wings make it cute, ꒰♡꒱ and ʚ♡ɞ; little stars and dots make it aesthetic, ₊˚⊹♡ and ·˚ ♡ ˚·; and rows of emoji make a big heart that fills a message. For hearts set between the letters of a name, see the heart font, for stars to go with them our star symbols, and for faces in love, our kaomoji.

Where the heart shape comes from

The shape is far older than its meaning: ivy and fig leaves drawn the same way fill Greek and Roman art. As a sign of love it appears in the Middle Ages, in a French romance of the 1250s where a lover hands over his heart, and from the 15th century it is a suit of French playing cards. That suit is the ♥ of computers: Unicode still calls it the black heart suit.

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