black heart Emoji
🖤 · U+1F5A4 · Emoji 3.0
What does the black heart emoji mean?
Meaning reviewed and updated July 2026 · Unicode data from the official Unicode Standard
The black heart emoji 🖤 conveys dark humor, sorrow or an edgy, goth aesthetic. It can express grief or a deadpan, unbothered mood.
How to copy the black heart emoji
To use the black heart emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1F5A4), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
More about black heart
Also known as
black heart emoji on different platforms
How the black heart emoji looks across emoji sets. These designs come from openly-licensed sets (Twemoji, Google Noto, OpenMoji). See image credits.
black heart Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🖤 |
| Name | black heart |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Codepoints | U+1F5A4 |
| Shortcode | :black_heart: |
| Emoji version | 3.0 |
| Unicode version | 3.0 |
black heart Emoji FAQ
The black heart emoji 🖤 conveys dark humor, sorrow or an edgy, goth aesthetic. It can express grief or a deadpan, unbothered mood.
Tap the Copy button at the top of this page, then paste 🖤 wherever you type. Because it copies the real Unicode character, it works in every app on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac.
It is U+1F5A4, introduced in Emoji version 3.0 (Unicode 3.0). Its shortcode is :black_heart:.
People also search for the black heart emoji as black, evil, heart, wicked.