Black Heart Suit Symbol (♥)

About the Black Heart Suit Symbol

Last reviewed on August 3, 2026

The Black Heart Suit symbol (♥) is one of the hearts and love characters in the AllSymbols catalog. It is part of the family of Unicode heart characters, which split into two visual styles: thin suit hearts from the playing-card tradition and plump emoji hearts in color. The two styles cannot be mixed for visual consistency — pick a style and use it throughout a piece of writing.

Where this character is used

Heart characters carry the same casual associations across most contexts: affection, gratitude, support, fondness. Color emoji hearts add a tonal layer — red is direct, pink and purple lean affectionate, blue and green carry friendship and support undertones in many online communities. Conventions are loose; treat them as soft signals rather than rules.

Code references

In Unicode, Black Heart Suit sits at code point U+2665. Web pages reference it with the HTML numeric entity ♥; CSS rules reference it as a quoted hex escape (the four-digit code prefixed with a backslash); in JavaScript and most modern source-code contexts you can either paste the literal character or use a Unicode escape with the same hex digits.

Rendering and font support

Suit hearts (♥ / ♡) inherit the surrounding text color through CSS. Color emoji hearts render with the platform’s emoji font and ignore the surrounding color — you can’t tint them with CSS. Pick the style that matches the context: monochrome prose wants the suit heart; chat and social posts usually want the emoji.

Related characters

If Black Heart Suit isn’t quite what you need, the Hearts and Love page lists every related character on the site — including Red Heart and Purple Heart. The related-symbols grid below also surfaces the closest sibling characters.