Wingdings Translator

Heart in Wingdings

Short answer: Wingdings 1, 2 and 3 have no heart symbol — every heart-shaped "Wingdings" symbol you've seen is either from Webdings or plain Unicode. Here is the real mapping, plus every heart you can copy right now.

Every Heart You Can Copy

Why Wingdings Has No Heart (and What People Use Instead)

When Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes assembled the Wingdings set in 1990, the lowercase alphabet went to zodiac signs, geometric shapes and circular icons — no romantic glyphs. If you see a "Wingdings heart" claim on another site, it is either the Webdings sideways heart on the Y key, or — far more often — the Unicode ♥ pasted alongside Wingdings symbols.

That's not a loss. Unicode hearts actually render in color on modern phones (❤ becomes a red emoji), survive copy-paste everywhere, and mix cleanly with Wingdings text: type your message on the main translator, drop a ♥ where you want it, and send. Decoders — ours included — pass hearts through untouched.

A quick history for the curious: the heart shape entered early dingbat collections through card suits (♥ is literally the "heart suit" from playing cards), which is why so many symbol fonts from the 1990s include spades, diamonds and clubs but skip the romantic heart. When instant messaging and SMS made hearts a daily necessity, Unicode's emoji era answered with a whole family of them — red, black, broken, sparkling, growing — all listed in the copy table above. Today the fastest way to "type a heart in Wingdings" is simply to paste one of those, because every device on earth understands it without any font installed.

Looking for other shapes? See the checkmark, star and arrow guides, or the full alphabet chart.

Frequently Asked Questions

▸Which key is the heart in Wingdings?

None, surprisingly — the Wingdings 1, 2 and 3 fonts contain no heart symbol at all. The heart hunters' answer lives in Webdings, the related Microsoft font: capital Y gives a sideways heart (heart with tip on the left). For a normal upright heart, copy the Unicode ♥ from the table above.

▸Why is there no heart in Wingdings?

The original 1990/1992 symbol set simply didn't include one — the designers filled the lowercase letters with zodiac signs and shapes instead. Hearts arrived in chat culture through Unicode, which standardized ♥ (U+2665) and later the emoji hearts ❣️❤️ from other sources.

▸How do I type ♥ instead of using Wingdings?

Copy it from the table above, or type it directly: on Windows, ALT+3 on the numeric keypad gives ♥ in most apps; on Mac, press Option+Shift+K isn't a heart — use the Character Viewer (Control+Command+Space) and search "heart". In HTML use ♥.

▸Can I put a heart in a Wingdings message?

Yes — mixed text is fine. Type your message on the main translator, then paste a ♥ anywhere you like. When someone decodes your message, the heart passes through untouched (our decoder leaves unknown characters as-is), so it still reads perfectly.