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U+2665 · BLACK HEART SUIT

Black Heart Suit

  • CodepointU+2665
  • NameBLACK HEART SUIT
  • Emoji nameheart suit
  • Decimal9829
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2665 (♥) is BLACK HEART SUIT, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “heart suit”, in the Activities group, subgroup game. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2665 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ♥

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 99 A53 bytes
UTF-1626651 code unit
UTF-32000026654 bytes
HTML named♥named character reference
HTML named♥named character reference
HTML decimal♥
HTML hex♥
CSS\2665in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2665
JSON\u2665
Python\u2665
Python\N{BLACK HEART SUIT}by name
Java / C#\u2665
C / C++\u2665universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2665}
Go\u2665
Ruby\u2665
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9829)
URL-encoded%E2%99%A5percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+265F♟Black Chess Pawn U+2660♠Black Spade Suit U+2661♡White Heart Suit U+2662♢White Diamond Suit U+2663♣Black Club Suit U+2664♤White Spade Suit U+2666♦Black Diamond Suit U+2667♧White Club Suit U+2668♨Hot Springs U+2669♩Quarter Note U+266A♪Eighth Note U+266B♫Beamed Eighth Notes