Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 3.0
🖤Black Heart Emoji
Basically, when someone sends you 🖤, they’re showing they feel something strongly, often something intense or a bit dramatic. It’s a way to convey a powerful emotion without saying exactly what it is.
The 🖤 emoji is a black heart.
- Unicode
- U+1F5A4
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :black_
heart: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🖤 Black Heart emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as wicked emoji.
02 — Platforms
Black Heart emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the black heart as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Black Heart emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :black_heart:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F5A4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🖤 Black Heart emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Black Heart emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the black heart as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Black Heart emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around black heart for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🖤, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🖤 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🖤 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the black heart lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🖤 vs 🧡 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Black Heart
Code: U+1F5A4 · added 2016
Shortcode: :black_heart:
Basically, when someone sends you 🖤, they’re showing they feel something strongly, often something intense or a bit dramatic.
Unicode name: Orange Heart
Code: U+1F9E1 · added 2017
Shortcode: :orange_heart:
Basically, when someone sends you 🧡 in a text, they’re just letting you know they care about you and they’re feeling warm towards you.
12 — History
Where the 🖤 Black Heart emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the black heart has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F5A4 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Black Heart was approved as U+1F5A4 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🖤 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ