How to type White Heart
To type White Heart (♡), press Alt + 9825 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ♡ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2661 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2661 on Linux, or 2661 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
White Heart Suit
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- Unicode
- U+2661
- Windows
- Alt + 9825 needs regedit
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 9825 | Above 255, so Windows will not accept it as typed. Copy the character instead. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ♡ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2661 | WHITE HEART SUIT |
Other symbols
White Heart is not the only name it goes by. People look for ♡ as outline heart and empty heart as well, and the search box on this site matches any of them, so you do not have to know which name Unicode chose.
♡ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
How to type ♡ on a phone
On a phone, neither iOS nor Android has a codepoint route. Copy ♡ from this page once, then add it as a text replacement (Settings, General, Keyboard on iOS) so a short abbreviation expands to it from then on.
What White Heart is used for
In mathematical notation ♡ is an ordinary symbol: it carries no special spacing and sits in an expression the way a letter does, standing for a thing rather than doing something to the things around it. That is the classification unicode-math gives it, and it is what decides how the symbol is set: $\heartsuit$ in LaTeX, in maths mode rather than in a sentence.
How White Heart behaves in software
♡ is East Asian Ambiguous: one column in a Western locale and two in a CJK one. That is why a table that lines up on your machine can break on somebody else's, with no change to the text at all. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about White Heart
What do black and white heart emojis mean?
♡ is WHITE HEART SUIT, encoded at U+2661.
How to add white heart emoji in android?
You can press Alt + 9825 on Windows, with Num Lock on and the digits typed on the numeric keypad. That produces ♡.
Every way to write White Heart
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2661 |
| Decimal | 9825 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 A1 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 61 |
| HTML entity | ♡ |
| HTML numeric | ♡ or ♡ |
| CSS | \2661 |
| JavaScript | \u2661 |
| Python | \u2661 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%A1 |
| LaTeX, in maths mode | $\heartsuit$ |
| SVG | 2661.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♡ arrives as ♡
One character has become three, which is what a three-byte UTF-8 sequence looks like when each byte is read separately: E2 99 A1 read as Windows-1252 gives exactly ♡. The text is intact and the damage is in the reading, so setting the reader to UTF-8 restores it and retyping does not. A rectangle instead of the mojibake means the opposite: the encoding is right and the font has no glyph at U+2661, which for a character this far outside Latin-1 is common in older office fonts.