U+2764 "❤" Heavy Black Heart Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
❤
U+2764 "❤" Heavy Black Heart is a widely recognized digital symbol representing love, affection, and warmth, often used in text messages, social media, and online communication. It is a single character in the Unicode standard, part of the Dingbats block, and is distinct from the basic ASCII heart shape, offering a bolder, more visually prominent variant. This character is commonly employed in emoticons and has become a universal shorthand for expressing positive emotions, from romantic love to friendship and support. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent rendering across different platforms and devices, making it a staple of modern typography and digital expression.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2764 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Heavy Black Heart |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ❤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ❤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9D 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2764 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002764 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2764 |