♥

See also: ♡ [U+2661 WHITE HEART SUIT], 🧡 [U+1F9E1 ORANGE HEART], 💛 [U+1F49B YELLOW HEART], 💚 [U+1F49A GREEN HEART], 💙 [U+1F499 BLUE HEART], 💜 [U+1F49C PURPLE HEART], 🖤 [U+1F5A4 BLACK HEART], 🤍 [U+1F90D WHITE HEART], and 🤎 [U+1F90E BROWN HEART]

Text style	Emoji style
♥︎	♥️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
♥ U+2665, ♥ BLACK HEART SUIT ← ♤ [U+2664] Miscellaneous Symbols ♦ → [U+2666]

Text style	Emoji style
❤︎	❤️
Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
❤ U+2764, ❤ HEAVY BLACK HEART ← ❣ [U+2763] Dingbats ❥ → [U+2765]

Translingual

Symbol

♥︎

1. (card games) Hearts (on playing cards).
2. Love.
   • 2024 July 12, Mehera Bonner, “Serena Williams's Daughter Olympia Made an Adorable Appearance on the ESPYS Red Carpet!”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     Cutest family ever. ❤️ [subtitle]

3. A heart.

   just about gave me a ❤️ attack

   • 2024 September 25, Mehera Bonner, “Anna Delvey Said She’s Taking “Nothing” From ‘DWTS’ and Ezra Sosa Had the Funniest Reaction”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[2]:

     Meanwhile, pro partner Ezra Sosa looked absolutely shocked, bless his ❤️.

4. (video games) A life.
5. (video games) A hit point.
6. (video games) Healing.
7. An emoticon used in Japanese manga, indicating a smooth tone of voice, implying happiness, or love, or lust, etc.
   • 2004, Hikaru no Go volume #2 (English release), Viz, page 14

     If you want to take this boy on, do it on the Go board. I'll teach him a lesson. Play a game! ♡

Synonyms

• <3

See also

Suits (translingual) (layout · text)
♥/♡	♦/♢	♠/♤	♣/♧

English

Alternative forms

• <3

Verb

♥ (third-person singular simple present ♥s or ♥'s, present participle ♥ing or ♥'ing, simple past and past participle ♥ed or ♥'ed or ♥'d)

1. Stylistic substitution for the word love.

   I♥NY ― I love New York.

   I ♥ U. ― I love you.

   • 2011, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, “Travel”, in The Modern Gentleman, 2nd Edition, A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy, and Vice, part 4 (The Wayfaring Gentleman), page 271:

     "My karma ran over your dogma" is well regarded by these gentlemen, though the baffling "I ❤ Quisp" is more singular.