Rotated Black Heart Bullet ❥ — Asymmetric Valentine Ornament | WikiSymbol

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet Symbol

Rotated Black Heart Bullet is the asymmetric dingbat heart for boutique valentine lists, encoding fleuron romance, rotated bullet ornament, and print-era love punctuation in one glyph typographers pair with floral heart marks.

Bullet Tables Before Emoji Lists

Cold-type bullet charts included rotated heart ornaments for wedding programs and society pages—lists of donors, attendants, or readings where a plain round bullet felt too municipal. Unicode preserved the rotated heavy black heart bullet as part of that fleuron toolkit.

Digital adopters reuse it in plain-text fanfiction headers and aesthetic Tumblr-era copy where asymmetry signals craft rather than system default.

Rotation Breaks Template Fatigue

Rotating the heart lobe off vertical axis introduces mild disorientation that increases memorability—similar to tilted stickers on laptops. Readers perceive intentional design rather than auto-inserted emoji.

Ornament With Affection Residue

Primary role remains list ornament; secondary reading is valentine craft. Users who paste the mark usually want visual rhythm first, love connotation second—unlike ♥ or ❤ where affection leads.

Aesthetic social bios and plain-text zines rotate heart bullets to differentiate from default platform bullets without importing image assets.

Where Manuscript Rubrics Meet Markdown

Medieval rubricators drew marginal hearts beside prayers—not always as theology, sometimes as navigation. Rotated heart bullets perform secular navigation: marking lines in a list whose content may be mundane while the ornament whispers romance.

Craft Signaling and Exclusion

Obscure dingbats can signal in-group aesthetic literacy; they also fail on fonts that lack the glyph, producing tofu boxes for readers on older systems—an accessibility gap ornament lovers often forget.

Floral and Rotated Bullets

Works beside the floral heart and rotated floral heart bullet as a coordinated fleuron set—mixing rotated and upright forms to rhythm section breaks in valentine copy.

Fallback Planning

Always specify a plain round bullet fallback in CSS content properties when the mark must render on unknown fonts—especially in email HTML where dingbat coverage varies wildly.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should rotated heart bullets replace standard list markers in accessibility-first docs?

Only with caution. Screen readers may announce the ornament name without conveying list semantics unless proper list markup wraps the content. For ceremonial wedding PDFs aimed at print, rotated bullets shine; for policy documentation or technical specs, prefer semantic HTML lists with conventional markers and keep heart bullets for decorative cover pages.

Why rotate a heart bullet instead of using a plain heavy black heart inline?

Rotation signals ornament role— separating navigation bullets from in-sentence affection. A plain heavy black heart mid-sentence reads as emotion; a rotated bullet at line start reads as design system choice. Typographers preserve that distinction even when casual users treat both as "cute hearts."

What pairs best with this bullet in plain-text wedding programs?

Alternate with the floral heart or rotated floral heart bullet to avoid visual monotony, using upright heavy black hearts only for section titles. The trio mimics historical fleuron variety without importing custom SVG dividers— valuable when coordinators email programs as plain attachments.

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet Symbol Information

Symbol Name	Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet
Unicode Version	1.1
Unicode	U+2765
Unicode block	Dingbats
General category	Other Symbol (So)
CSS Code

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet Symbol Encoding

UTF-8	E2 9D A5
UTF-16	2765
UTF-32	00002765

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet Symbol PNG and SVG files

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet Symbol in LaTeX

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet

1\documentclass{article}2\usepackage{pifont}3\text{ROTATEDHEAVYBLACKHEARTBULLET}4\end{document}

How to add rotated heavy black heart bullet symbol via keyboard on different operating systems

You can type the rotated heavy black heart bullet symbol on most modern devices with the help of following methods:

Windows

Alt + 10085 on Windows (numeric keypad with Num Lock), or insert via Character Map.

Mac

Edit → Emoji & Symbols, search "rotated heavy black heart bullet", or use Unicode Hex Input with 2765.

Linux

Ctrl + Shift + U, type 2765, then Enter (layout-dependent).

iOS

Paste from this page, use text replacement, or pick from the emoji keyboard.

Android

Paste from this page or use a keyboard with heart symbol support.

How to use rotated heavy black heart bullet in CSS

//CSS Example

1span.rotated-black-heart-bullet::before { content: "\2765"; }

How to use rotated heavy black heart bullet in HTML

//HTML Example

1<span>❥</span>

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet symbol representation in programming languages

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet symbol's representation in different programming languages can be found in the table below:

Language	Representation
JavaScript / TypeScript	'\u2765' or String.fromCodePoint(10085)
Python	'\N{ROTATED HEAVY BLACK HEART BULLET}' or chr(10085)
Rust	'\u{2765}'
C / C++	UTF-8 source or wchar_t with U+2765
Go	string(rune(0x2765))
Ruby	"\u{2765}"

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Hex Code	0x2765
HTML Code	❥
LaTeX	\text{ROTATEDHEAVYBLACKHEARTBULLET}
Symbol	❥
URL encode (UTF-8 percent)	%E2%9D%A5
Spoken / screen reader name	Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet

Rotated Heavy Black Heart Bullet Symbol ❥