Heart Symbol Copy and Paste

Black heart, white heart or red emoji?

There are two kinds of hearts here. ♡ and ♥ are text symbols: they take the color of the text around them, so they are black on a white background and white in dark mode. ❤️ and the other color hearts are emoji. They stay red, pink or blue whatever the text color is.

The confusing one is ❤. It is a text symbol that is also an emoji, so the same character shows as a plain black heart in some apps and as a red emoji in others, most often on iPhone. If you want a red heart every time, copy ❤️ from the color emoji row, which carries the emoji selector. If you want it to stay plain, copy "Heavy heart, kept plain", which carries the text selector U+FE0E. ♥ behaves the same way, so it has a kept-plain version too.

For the safest plain heart, pick the white heart ♡. It is not an emoji at all, so no phone turns it into a red picture.

Heart symbols for names and bios

A heart on each side of a name is the classic look: ♡ Mia ♡. Use the string box under the hearts. Tap a heart, type the name, tap the heart again, and copy it all at once.

Watch the length. Plain hearts like ♡ and ♥ count as one character. Color emoji count as two, and joined ones like ❤️‍🔥 count as five or more, because they are several characters glued together. With Instagram's 30-character name limit, two emoji hearts and a frame can use a third of the space. The counter in the string box shows the strict count.

Some name fields reject emoji even when they accept symbols. If a color heart is refused, try ♡ or ♥, which are ordinary symbols. For a frame with hearts built in, cute fonts has borders like ♡⸝⸝ and ʚ ɞ that wrap around your name in one tap.

Text hearts and heart combos

<3 is the oldest heart on the internet: a less-than sign and a 3 make a heart lying on its side. It needs no special characters, so it works everywhere, and some chat apps turn it into an emoji heart as you type. </3 is the broken version and <333 is the extra-enthusiastic one.

Combos mix a heart with sparkles or small marks: ⋆˙⟡♡, ୨♡୧, ꒰ა ♡ ໒꒱. They make a ready-made ending for a caption or a divider in a bio. For faces holding hearts, like (♡°▽°♡), the kaomoji page has a whole love section.

Stars, sparkles and flowers that go well with hearts are on the copy and paste symbols page.

How to type a heart on your keyboard

On iPhone and Android, the emoji keyboard has every color heart: tap the emoji key and search for "heart". Plain hearts like ♡ are not on the standard keyboards, which is why people copy them.

On Windows, hold Alt and type 3 on the number pad to get ♥, or press Windows + period to open the emoji panel with the color hearts. On a Mac, press Control + Command + Space and search for "heart" in the character viewer, which has ♡, ♥ and ❤.

On any device you can also type <3. It is two keys and everyone knows what it means. For everything else, copy and paste a heart symbol from the grid above.

New heart emoji that older phones lack

Most color hearts have been around for years, but the pink 🩷, light blue 🩵 and grey 🩶 hearts were only added to emoji in 2022. Phones that have not had a system update since then show them as an empty box or a plain outline. They are marked with a dashed dot in the grid.

If the people who will see your post use older phones, or you are writing a name for a game that runs on many devices, pick a heart from the older set: the red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple hearts work almost everywhere. The heart on fire ❤️‍🔥 and the mending heart ❤️‍🩹 are newer too, and on some older phones they split into two emoji side by side.