Japanese Heart Symbol

Tap a tile to copy it: 心 for heart, 愛 and 恋 for love, and kanji with the heart inside.

Japanese Heart Symbol

心Heart, kokoroU+5FC3Ready to copy

47 symbols. Tap one to copy it.

Heart and love kanji 4

Kanji written with the heart 5

The heart radical 4

Feelings written with the heart 15

Kind, happy, sincere 4

Heart words in kana 6

Hearts to write with them 3

Wrappers and dividers 6

Next step Heart faces in text, such as (♡‿♡)Next: Chinese symbols with their meanings

How it works

The Japanese heart symbol is 心, read kokoro or shin, which Unihan defines as heart; mind, intelligence; soul. The 47 tiles add the love kanji, feelings written with the heart, the heart radical and heart words in kana.

Read the full guide

Heart, love and romantic love

心 is the heart itself. 愛, ai, is love in general, and 恋, koi, is love that longs for someone. Both are written with 心 inside them, and all three are on Japan's 2010 list of everyday kanji.

Feelings written with the heart

Dictionaries sort kanji by radical, and the heart is radical 61. On the left of a kanji it stands upright as 忄; at the bottom it keeps its full shape. Sad 悲, anger 怒, fear 恐 and feel 感 are all filed under it.

Tips
  • Every meaning and reading on a tile is from Unihan, Unicode's database of these characters.
  • For a heart face made of text, the heart kaomoji page has them; a kanji is a word, not a face.

Questions and answers

What is the kanji for heart?

心, U+5FC3. Unihan gives it heart; mind, intelligence; soul, with the Japanese readings shin and kokoro. It is also radical 61, the part dictionaries file feelings under.

How do you write love in Japanese?

愛, ai, for love in general, or 恋, koi, for longing, romantic love. In hiragana they are あい and こい. Both kanji hold 心 at their centre or base.

Is 心 the same in Chinese?

The character is the same one, U+5FC3, in both languages; only the reading differs. The Chinese symbols page lists it with its Mandarin reading, xīn.

More tools

Browse Text styles

All 47 symbols

Heart and love kanji 4

  • Feeling, jou U+60C5 CJK unified ideograph-60C5. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Feeling, sentiment, emotion. One of its readings is kokoro too.
  • Heart, kokoro U+5FC3 CJK unified ideograph-5FC3. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. The kanji for heart. Unihan gives heart; mind, intelligence; soul, and the readings shin and kokoro. On the 2010 list of everyday kanji.
  • Love, ai U+611B CJK unified ideograph-611B. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Love. Unihan gives love, be fond of, like, and the reading ai. It is written with the heart in its middle.
  • Romantic love, koi U+604B CJK unified ideograph-604B. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Love; long for, yearn for. Read koi, and ren. The heart sits at the bottom.

Kanji written with the heart 5

  • Kindness, on U+6069 CJK unified ideograph-6069. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Kindness, mercy, charity.
  • Long for, shitau U+6155 CJK unified ideograph-6155. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Long for, desire; admire. Read shitau.
  • Think of, nen U+5FF5 CJK unified ideograph-5FF5. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Think of, recall.
  • Think, omou U+601D CJK unified ideograph-601D. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Think, consider. Read omou. The heart is the lower half.
  • Thought, omoi U+60F3 CJK unified ideograph-60F3. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Think, speculate. Read omoi and omou, with the heart at the bottom.
Show all 47 symbols (38 more)

The heart radical 4

  • Heart radical U+2F3C Kangxi radical heart. Kangxi Radicals block, Unicode 3.0. Radical 61 on its own, from the list of 214 radicals dictionaries sort kanji by.
  • Heart radical, first form U+2E96 CJK radical heart one. CJK Radicals Supplement block, Unicode 3.0. The standing form as a radical sign.
  • Heart radical, second form U+2E97 CJK radical heart two. CJK Radicals Supplement block, Unicode 3.0. The form written at the bottom of a kanji.
  • Standing heart U+5FC4 CJK unified ideograph-5FC4. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. The heart as it is written on the left of a kanji. Unihan gives heart; radical number 61, and the name risshinben.

Feelings written with the heart 15

  • Anger, ikari U+6012 CJK unified ideograph-6012. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Anger, rage, passion. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Bosom, futokoro U+61D0 CJK unified ideograph-61D0. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Bosom, breast. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Delight, tanoshii U+6109 CJK unified ideograph-6109. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Pleasant, delightful. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Endure, shinobu U+5FCD CJK unified ideograph-5FCD. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Endure, bear, suffer. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Fear, osore U+6050 CJK unified ideograph-6050. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Fear. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Feel, kan U+611F CJK unified ideograph-611F. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Feel, perceive, emotion. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Forget, wasureru U+5FD8 CJK unified ideograph-5FD8. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Forget. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Loyalty, chuu U+5FE0 CJK unified ideograph-5FE0. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Loyalty, devotion, fidelity. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Mind, i U+610F CJK unified ideograph-610F. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Thought, idea, opinion. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Pleased, yorokobu U+60A6 CJK unified ideograph-60A6. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Pleased, contented, gratified. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Remember, oboeru U+61B6 CJK unified ideograph-61B6. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Remember, reflect upon. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Sad, kanashii U+60B2 CJK unified ideograph-60B2. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Sorrow, grief. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Shame, haji U+6065 CJK unified ideograph-6065. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Shame, humiliation. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Will, kokorozashi U+5FD7 CJK unified ideograph-5FD7. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Purpose, will, determination. The heart is part of how it is written.
  • Yearn, akogareru U+61A7 CJK unified ideograph-61A7. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Irresolute, indecisive. The heart is part of how it is written.

Kind, happy, sincere 4

  • Gentle, yasashii U+512A CJK unified ideograph-512A. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Superior, excellent. One Japanese reading is yasashii, gentle.
  • Happiness, shiawase U+5E78 CJK unified ideograph-5E78. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Luck, favour. One Japanese reading is shiawase, happiness.
  • Sincere, makoto U+8AA0 CJK unified ideograph-8AA0. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Sincere, honest; true. Read makoto.
  • To like, suku U+597D CJK unified ideograph-597D. CJK Unified Ideographs block, Unicode 1.1. Good, excellent. One Japanese reading is suku, to like.

Heart words in kana 6

  • あい Ai, love, in hiragana
  • こい Koi, romantic love, in hiragana
  • こころ Kokoro, heart, in hiragana
  • アイ Ai in katakana
  • シン Shin, the other reading of 心, in katakana
  • レン Ren, the other reading of 恋, in katakana

Hearts to write with them 3

  • Black heart U+2665 Black heart suit. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The filled heart, text rather than emoji. Has an emoji form too, so it is copied with U+FE0E, the selector that keeps it as plain text.
  • Heart decoration U+1F49F. A heart in a purple square. Emoji 0.6.
  • White heart U+2661 White heart suit. Miscellaneous Symbols block, Unicode 1.1. The outline heart that sits after a word in Japanese messages as easily as in English ones.

Wrappers and dividers 6

  • ♡ 恋 ♡ Koi between two hearts
  • ♡・♡・♡・♡ Hearts with katakana middle dots
  • 『愛』 Love in corner quotes
  • 【心】 Heart in black lenticular brackets
  • 〜♡〜 A heart on a wave dash
  • 心 ─ ♡ ─ 心 A divider of hearts, drawn and written

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-24, not typed by hand. Every character was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and block names against Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). The meanings are the kDefinition field and the Japanese readings the kJapanese field of Unihan_Readings.txt, membership of the 2010 list of everyday kanji the kJoyoKanji field of Unihan_OtherMappings.txt, and the radical the kRSUnicode field of Unihan_IRGSources.txt, all in Unihan.zip, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip); the build stops if any meaning, reading or radical it quotes is not there. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. Emoji search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). CLDR files no heart emoji under japanese. The romanised readings in the tile names are the Unihan readings written in Latin letters. The choice of characters, the kana words and every wrapper and divider are this site's own. All sources were checked on 2026-09-24. Licence: own work