❤️ Red Heart

❤️ Red Heart is the oldest and most-used heart in the set, and by a wide margin the most-sent non-face emoji worldwide. It covers romantic love, but the majority of its use is not romantic at all: thanks, solidarity, appreciation of a photo, condolences.

Because it is so common it has almost no edge to it. Sending ❤️ to a colleague after good news reads as warm, not intimate.

Safe in nearly every context. If you want something less loaded, the coloured hearts (🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜) carry the same warmth with less weight.

• Thank you ❤️
• Thinking of you all ❤️

• 🫂❤️ – Support for someone who just got bad news.
• 🥰❤️ – The simplest and most common way to say "I love you" in a chat.
• ❤️❣️ – Red Heart and Heart Exclamation
• ❤️💚 – Red Heart with Green Heart
• ❤️🩷 – Red Heart plus Pink Heart
• ❤️💕 – Red Heart and Two Hearts

Note that ❤ without the variation selector renders as a plain text heart on some systems, which is why the emoji version is written U+2764 U+FE0F.