🖤 Black Heart
emoji
A digital black-colored heart, usually expressing affection
What does the Black Heart emoji 🖤 mean?
The Black Heart emoji (🖤) is a digital representation of the conventional symbol for a heart, colored black and used in electronic communication to convey, like other colored heart emoji, love, affection, sympathy, etc. It is also often used to add emphasis in connection to things associated with black. In general, the emoji does not have a specific, set meaning one should avoid using wrong or offensively.
Examples of the Black Heart emoji 🖤
Black Lives Matter. All Black Lives Matter. 🖤 PERIOD. / That means straight, gay, queer, trans, mentally ill, rich, poor, and everyone in between. YOU matter.
—@NBJContheMOve, X (formerly Twitter), 17 Oct. 2024
💀🖤 Spooky season is my favorite next to Christmas. Anyone else love to show off their slightly wicked side for the holiday?
—I'm so sorry. 🖤 much strength to you and her!
—Let’s Go Steelers, LET’S GO!! 🖤💛🖤💛🏈 #pittsburgh #pittsburghsteelers
—Happy birthday honey, I love you very much. 🖤
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Where does the Black Heart emoji 🖤 come from?
The Black Heart emoji 🖤 first appeared as part of Unicode 9.0, a 2016 update to the universal text and character encoding standard maintained by the nonprofit organization Unicode. It is a black-colored version of the Red Heart emoji, ❤️, which is based on non-colored digital heart symbols originating in Japanese technology in the late 1980s and 1990s.
How is the Black Heart emoji 🖤 used?
The Black Heart emoji 🖤 is among 12 other colored heart emoji, among other emoji that incorporate the heart symbol, and are often used in combination together: Red Heart ❤️, Pink Heart 🩷, Orange Heart 🧡, Yellow Heart 💛, Green Heart 💚, Blue Heart 💙, Light Blue Heart 🩵, Purple Heart 💜 , Brown Heart 🤎, Grey Heart 🩶, and White Heart 🤍 .
Despite differences in their use based on color, all of the heart emoji are used in similar, wide-ranging ways to convey various forms of affection and related positive emotions and behaviors, such as gratitude, happiness, and showing support. Compared to the Red Heart ❤️ and Pink Heart 🩷 emoji, the Black Heart emoji 🖤 is used somewhat less for direct expressions of romantic or familial love and affection.
Notable uses of the Black Heart emoji 🖤 include support of the Black Lives Matter movement alongside the Brown Heart emoji 🤎. It is also applied to various symbolism associated with the color black, including sorrow, grief, horror, evil, and dark humor. It is used in countless, idiosyncratic other manners to add emphasis in messages about people and things connected in some way to the color black, from sports teams to social causes to fashion.
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