Heart Symbols: Copy and Paste Text Hearts

How to use the heart symbols

1. Browse the tables below to find the heart symbols you need.
2. Click or select any character to copy it to your clipboard.
3. Use the provided Alt codes on Windows or Option shortcuts on Mac to type them directly.
4. For web pages, insert the listed HTML entity or Unicode code point.

Standard Heart Characters

The most common heart symbols come from the Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats blocks in Unicode. The black heart suit (U+2665) and white heart suit (U+2661) have been part of the standard since version 1.1. The heavy black heart (U+2764) was added later in the Dingbats block and is widely used as a default red heart across platforms.

Colored and Decorative Hearts

Unicode 13.0 (released in 2020) added a set of colored heart characters to the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block. These are plain text characters, not emoji sequences, so they render consistently without relying on variation selectors. They are useful when you need specific colors for love symbols in plain text environments.

Heart Emoji Sequences

Emoji hearts often use variation selectors or zero-width joiners (ZWJ) to control presentation. Appending U+FE0F (Variation Selector-16) forces emoji-style rendering instead of plain text. For example, the heavy black heart followed by VS16 renders as a colorful emoji on most platforms. Other options for heart emoji copy paste include animated or combined glyphs like the beating heart or two hearts.

ASCII Text Hearts

Before Unicode, people created text hearts using standard keyboard characters. These ASCII combinations remain popular because they work everywhere, including terminals, legacy systems and plain text files where special characters might not render. You can combine them with other symbols like those found on the arrow symbols page to build more complex emoticons.

• A less-than sign followed by the number three forms a basic sideways heart.
• Adding a forward slash between them creates a broken heart.
• Appending extra threes makes multiple hearts.
• Placing a lowercase d before the shape looks like a hand giving a heart.
• Adding a tilde after it suggests a kiss.

Multi-line ASCII art uses slashes, parentheses and underscores to form larger shapes. A simple example uses several lines of punctuation arranged symmetrically to outline the classic shape.

How to Type Heart Symbols

Typing heart symbols depends on your operating system. On Windows, hold the Alt key and type 3 on the numeric keypad to produce the black heart suit (this relies on CP437 mapping). For the heavy black heart, use Alt + 10084 with the numeric keypad while Num Lock is active. Note that Alt codes above 255 require the registry setting EnableHexNumpad to be enabled on some Windows versions.

On macOS, open the Character Viewer by pressing Control + Command + Space, search for "heart", and double-click the desired symbol. Alternatively, create a custom text replacement in System Settings under Keyboard.

On Linux with GTK, press Ctrl + Shift + U, type the hexadecimal code point (for example 2665), then press Enter or Space. In terminal emulators, you can also use echo with the unicode escape to output the character.

In HTML, use named entities like ♥ for the black heart suit or numeric references like ❤ for the heavy black heart. CSS content properties accept escaped hex values such as content: '\2665';.

Worked examples

Each result below was produced by the same code the tool runs, so you can check your own numbers against them.

Reference pages

• Symbols to copy and paste: Unicode, HTML codes and Alt codes for popular symbols.