E0.6 red heart, Emoji

An iconic red heart emoji for love. Across various cultures, the red heart ideograph has historically been used to convey sentiments of love and romance. This is one of the most common uses for this emoji. The Red Heart emoji is one of the default reaction emoji choices on many social messaging platforms, such as Instagram, Slack, and WhatsApp, therefore it's also frequently used to convey non-romantic happy thoughts. This is one of the most widely used emojis ever and has historically been the most popular heart emoji by a wide margin.

The heart suit in a deck of playing cards has an equivalent emoji.

This emoji appears on Snapchat next to a buddy if you have been each other's #1 best friend for a period of two weeks. Note: The term "Heavy Black Heart" refers to a solid, black ❤︎ heart character in the Unicode Character Database (UCD), which predates color emoji. For details on the term "black" in historical Unicode character names, consult the dictionary.

Red Heart was authorized in 1993 under the name "Heavy Black Heart" for inclusion in Unicode 1.1, and it was included to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Example link text ❤️