Type emoji and other symbols
Emojis displayed on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV use the Apple Color Emoji font installed on iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. Some Apple devices support Animoji and Memoji.Two Private Use Area characters are not cross-platform compatible but do work on Apple devices: Apple logo Beats 1 logo iOS received new emojis as part of iOS 13.2 in October 2019. Apr 15, 2017 No problem entering them here with Word 2016. I didn't take the time to figure out the Unicode keys to press, so I used the built in OS Emoji palette to copy/paste them in. I also used the third party Ultra Character Map to place a few. Either works. Bear in mind it is specifically using the font Apple Color Emoji.ttf. Only other Apple users. Mar 08, 2017 Desktop operating system’s like Windows 10 and macOS include system-wide support for Emoji if you know how to enable them. Here's how to do it. How to Enable and Use Emoji.
- Click the place in your document or message where you want the character to appear.
- Press Control–Command–Space bar. The Character Viewer pop-up window appears:
- Use the search field at the top of the window, click a category at the bottom of the window, or click in the upper-right corner to expand the window and reveal more characters.
- When you find the character that you want, click or double-click it to insert it in to your text.
In the Messages and Mail apps, you can also see the Character Viewer popup when you click .
Type accented characters
Press and hold a key until its alternate characters appear, then click or type the number under the character that you want to use.
If no additional characters are available for the key that you're holding, the accent menu doesn't appear.
If you decide that you don't want to type an accented character after holding a key, press the Esc (escape) key.
Repeat a character
Some keys repeat when you press and hold them, depending on where you type them. Press and hold the Space bar or symbol keys (like hyphen or equals) to make these characters repeat in most apps. In apps where accented characters aren't used (like Calculator, Grapher, or Terminal), letter and number keys also repeat when you press and hold them.
If a character isn't repeating, check your Key Repeat settings:
- Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences.
- Click Keyboard.
- Make sure that the Key Repeat slider isn't set to Off.
If a key isn't designed to repeat in the app you’re using, follow these steps:
- Select the character that you want to copy.
- Press Command-C to copy the character to the clipboard.
- Hold Command-V to paste the character repeatedly.
Learn more
Alt key is the most powerful key on the keyboard used minimum by common users. Other than using shortcuts like “Alt + F4” and “Alt + Tab” we do not use alt keys much when inside a document. But you can easily insert various symbols using one of the alt keys on the keyboard. In this shortcuts guide, we will show all alt code keyboard shortcuts for heart emoji symbols in Windows, Mac and HTML documents.
Related:Alt code shortcuts to insert symbols in Windows and Mac.
Inserting Heart Emoji in Windows
People uses heart emoji mainly for expressing love, romance and affection. It could be for happy or sad reasons. In addition, hearts is also part of playing card suit. You can insert these heart symbols using different methods.
Alt Code Shortcuts for Heart Symbols
Using alt code shortcuts is the easy way to insert heart symbols in Windows based documents including Outlook emails. Below table has a complete list of heart symbols with alt/decimal and hex codes. Press and hold one of the alt keys and then type the numbers shown in the first column of the table. For example, alt + 128152 will produce heart with arrow symbol like 💘. You should use the number pad on the keyboard for typing the numbers, it will not work when use number keys on default keyboard. This method will work on all Office documents like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Alt + Code | Hex Code | Symbol | Symbol Description |
---|---|---|---|
Alt + 9753 | 2619 | ☙ | Reversed Rotated Floral Heart Bullet |
Alt + 9825 | 2661 | ♡ | White Heart Suit |
Alt + 9829 | 2665 | ♥ | Black Heart Suit |
Alt + 10083 | 2763 | âx9D£ | Heavy Heart Exclamation Mark Ornament |
Alt + 10084 | 2764 | âx9D¤ | Heavy Black Heart |
Alt + 10085 | 2765 | âx9D¥ | Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet |
Alt + 10087 | 2767 | âx9D§ | Rotated Floral Heart Bullet |
Alt + 127977 | 1F3E9 | ðŸx8F© | Love Hotel |
Alt + 128140 | 1F48C | 💌 | Love Letter |
Alt + 128145 | 1F491 | 💑 | Couple With Heart |
Alt + 128146 | 1F492 | 💒 | Wedding Chapel With Hearts |
Alt + 128147 | 1F493 | 💓 | Beating Heart |
Alt + 128148 | 1F494 | 💔 | Broken Heart |
Alt + 128149 | 1F495 | 💕 | Two Hearts |
Alt + 128150 | 1F496 | 💖 | Sparkling Heart |
Alt + 128151 | 1F497 | 💗 | Growing Heart |
Alt + 128152 | 1F498 | 💘 | Heart With Arrow |
Alt + 128153 | 1F499 | 💙 | Blue Heart |
Alt + 128154 | 1F49A | 💚 | Green Heart |
Alt + 128155 | 1F49B | 💛 | Yellow Heart |
Alt + 128156 | 1F49C | 💜 | Purple Heart |
Alt + 128157 | 1F49D | ðŸ’x9D | Heart With Ribbon |
Alt + 128158 | 1F49E | 💞 | Revolving Hearts |
Alt + 128159 | 1F49F | 💟 | Heart Decoration |
Alt + 128525 | 1F60D | ðŸ˜x8D | Smiling Face With Heart Shaped Eyes |
Alt + 128571 | 1F63B | 😻 | Smiling Cat Face With Heart Shaped Eyes |
You can create a simple heart with alt + 3 shortcut, however it may not work on all documents.
Using Alt + X Method
Don’t have a numeric pad on your keyboard? You can still use the hexadecimal codes in the second column of the table along with alt and x keys. But this method will only work on Microsoft Word documents. You can copy and paste the symbols on Excel sheets and PowerPoint presentations. For example, 1F495 + alt + x will produce the double hearts symbol like 💕.
Using Emoji Keyboard in Windows 10
These hearts symbols are extremely popular in chat conversations in WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. You can easily pickup the symbol from the emoji picker. Following the trend, Microsoft also introduced an emoji keyboard in Windows 10. Therefore, you can easily pickup the heart symbol from the emoji keyboard to insert on Skype, Outlook and any other document.
- Press “Win + ;” keys to open emoji keyboard.
- Click on the heart symbols icon or type heart to filter the relevant symbols.
- Choose the symbol and click to insert.
Inserting Heart Emoji in Mac
Similar to Windows 10, you can use different methods to insert heart symbols on Mac documents like Pages and Keynote.
Heart Emoji Alt Code for Mac
First change the input method to Unicode Hex Input to use the alt code on Mac. Now, type the hex code in the second column of the above table by holding alt / option key. For example, option + 2764 will produce heavy black heart symbol like âx9D¤.
Using Character Viewer App in Mac
Though hexadecimal codes work on Mac, you can use only 4 digits code with alt key. Since all those beautiful heart emoji symbols are having 5 digit hex code, you can use the Character Viewer app.
- Press “Control + Command + Spacebar” to open Character Viewer app.
- Type “heart” in the search box to filter all heart symbols.
- Double click on the symbol to insert on your document.
Font Variation
As you can see in the above table, most of the symbols are solid emoji symbol. You can’t change the color as they will have a default color as per Unicode system. You can change the color of those few hearts with line symbol. However, you can adjust the size similar to text content on your document. Below are some example hearts with larger size and different background colors.
Emoji Microsoft Word Mac Free
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Heart Emoji Image Download
Emoji Keyboard Mac Shortcut
Download the below image by clicking and save as to your computer. You can use these hearts shortcuts image for reference.