Black heart
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- Shortcode
:black_heart:- Unicode
U+1F5A4- HTML
🖤- CSS
\1F5A4- JavaScript
"\u{1F5A4}"- URL
%F0%9F%96%A4
What ๐ค means
Love with a dark edge. ๐ค stands for goth style, dark humor, sorrow and mourning, or affection from someone who would never send a pink heart.
Friends send it to say "love you" with an ironic or moody tone. It also marks grief and loss, black outfits, metal and emo music, and the darker side of fandoms. In a condolence message it reads as quiet sympathy, not as edginess.
Some people also use it for Black pride, alongside ๐ค and โ๐ฟ.
Facts
Black heart ๐ค is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under heart. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :black_heart:. People also look for it with words like โblackโ, โevilโ, โheartโ, or โwickedโ.
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 3.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2018
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.