black heart

Black heart is the long name of 🖤, an emoji that lives in the Smileys & Emotion corner of the spec. Smiley emojis like 🖤 carry tone better than punctuation; drop one in to steer how a sentence is parsed. In hex, the codepoint reads 1F5A4; the canonical Unicode form is U+1F5A4. Unicode introduced it in v9.0; Apple's iOS has carried it since v10.2. On platforms that use shortcodes (Slack, Discord, GitHub), it answers to `:black_heart:`, `:black:`, `:evil:`, `:wicked:`. Its color profile reads gray — a useful hint when filtering by tone. Closely related themes: heart, love, black, evil, and wicked. Tone first, content second — 🖤 prefaces a sentence the way a stage direction does in a script. Copy 🖤 in one click and drop it into chat threads, captions, code comments, or design files.