♥

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]

♥ U+2665, ♥ BLACK HEART SUIT ← ♤ [U+2664] Miscellaneous Symbols ♦ → [U+2666]

❤ U+2764, ❤ HEAVY BLACK HEART ← ❣ [U+2763] Dingbats ❥ → [U+2765]

Translingual

Symbol

♥

1. (card games) hearts (on playing cards)
2. love
3. (video games) a life.
4. (video games) a hit point.
5. (video games) healing.
6. 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! ♡

Presentations of ♥

Text style	Emoji style
♥︎	♥️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system.

Presentations of ♥

Text style	Emoji style
❤︎	❤️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system.

Synonyms

• <3

See also

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

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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.