U+2665 "♥" Black Heart Suit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♥
U+2665 "♥" Black Heart Suit is a typographic symbol representing the heart suit from a standard deck of playing cards, originally included in the Unicode standard for text encoding compatibility with legacy character sets. This black, solid heart shape is widely used in digital communication as a versatile symbol for love, affection, romance, and general positive sentiment, often substituting for the more complex red heart emoji in plain text environments. Its simplicity and universal recognizability make it a common choice for decorating usernames, expressing emotion in messages, or serving as a decorative element in web design and text formatting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2665 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Heart Suit |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2665 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002665 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2665 |