U+1F5A4 "🖤" Black Heart Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖤
U+1F5A4 "🖤" Black Heart is a typographic symbol that represents a solid, black-colored heart, often used in digital communication to convey emotions such as sorrow, dark humor, grief, or a sense of edgy or gothic aesthetic, depending on context. Unlike the classic red heart, it can signify a loss of love, a sarcastic or ironic affection, or solidarity with movements like Black Lives Matter, where it has been adopted as a symbol of support. Its meaning is highly flexible and can range from expressing a "broken heart" to indicating a deep, unironic love for something dark or unconventional.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5A4 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Black Heart |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🖤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🖤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDDA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F5A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udda4 |