The black heart emoji is a solid black heart shape, but despite the color, it isn't about negativity at all. It signifies dark or ironic humor, an appreciation for goth or edgy aesthetics, or a deep, intense kind of love and loyalty that feels more serious than a typical red heart.
What 🖤 means
Although the 🖤 Black Heart can seem 'unlucky', 'dark', and all the other prejudices stuck to the color, it can also signify beauty, soulfulness, intimacy, uniqueness, seduction, and power too.
How and when to use it
- Send this emoji while telling someone really close that you love them (preferably not romantic, but super close).
- It can be used to respond to aesthetic stuff you see on social media.
- Use this emoji while telling someone about something black and beautiful that you bought.
- It is also a great emoji choice to use in the context of strength, power, and being low-key badass.
- Use this emoji while reacting to someone or something that's tough, intimidating, and impressive too.
Other Names
- 🖤 Love
- 🖤 Soulfulness
- 🖤 Depth
- 🖤 Mystery
- 🖤 Soul Mate
- 🖤 Beauty
- 🖤 Seduction
- 🖤 Aesthetic
🖤 in real conversations
What does 🖤 mean from a girl?
Either aesthetic or armor. It's the goth-elegant heart for people whose favorite color is black — and, separately, a genuine marker of grief or dark humor. Tone tells you which.
What does 🖤 mean from a guy?
Dry affection: 'I love this in a way that would be embarrassing to say with a red heart.' Also sorrow, spite-with-style, or just matching the fit.
What does 🖤 mean in texting?
Love, inverted for effect — irony, edge, mourning or minimalist cool. The one heart that can be completely sincere and completely deadpan in the same week.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › heart
- Codepoints
U+1F5A4- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:black_heart:- Keywords
- black, evil, heart, wicked
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🖤 Black Heart or 🇹🇩 Flag: Chad?
Runs with a crowd
🖤 keeps company in black emojis and cool emojis and heart emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.