The black heart is the goth cousin of the classic red heart—same shape, more eyeliner. It says “love you, but make it existential,” perfect for dark romance, minimalist aesthetics, or when your affection wears combat boots. People drop it to match an all-black fit, to nod at emo/alt vibes, or to signal that their playlist is 90% melancholic bangers. It’s also a sleek, respectful choice for memorials and moments of solidarity, where color feels too loud.
Online, 🖤 carries that deadpan, dramatic energy: supportive but not sappy, flirty but mysterious, sweet with a shadow. It shows up in “villain era” captions, soft-grunge selfies, and those “I care, just not in pink” texts. It can be sarcastic—like a cool, unbothered “noted”—or tender in a low-key, candlelit way. Think dark mode feelings, delivered with taste.
On Apple devices, the black heart looks like a glossy, inky drop of lacquer: deep charcoal-to-jet gradient, soft 3D shading, and a tiny top-left highlight that screams premium. The curves are plush and symmetrical, facing straight-on for that iconic heart silhouette, crisp against light or dark backgrounds. Some platforms go flatter, but on iOS it reads like a polished pebble—sleek, luxe, and unmistakably moody.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 79 of 2393 |
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| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🖤 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🖤 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🖤 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🖤 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f5a4 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F5A4 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128420 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0xA4 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 A4 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 244 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDDA4 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddda4 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56740 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F5A4 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F5A4 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128420 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F5A4" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\xa4" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDDA4" |
