U+1F5A4 · emoji since 2016
The black heart is love in dark mode. It suits goth and minimal aesthetics, dark humor, and affection from people who would never send anything pink.
It can also carry grief or solidarity in heavy moments. Stylish, sincere, and a little edgy, it's the heart that wears all black to the party.
In texting, 🖤 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🖤 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Black Heart emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the black heart emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🖤 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.