Heart symbol)
The heart or the heart shape is mainly known as a symbol for love .
The heart symbol symbolizes the heart organ of the same name . Just as the organ stands metonymically for goodness and love , the heart symbol also represents these values. It is generally associated with the color red .
history
The heart symbol arises from the stylized representations of fig leaves , as they were already in the 3rd millennium BC. Are to be found. Fig and later also ivy leaves are often used as decoration on vases and especially in Minoan frescoes. In the 8th century BC Corinthian vase painters decorated their figurative images with ivy leaves and heart-shaped grapes. The ivy leaf symbolized eternal love in Greek, Roman and early Christian cultures (ivy is a very long-lived plant).
In the literature of the mines of the 12th and 13th centuries, ivy leaves finally appear in love scenes, soon painted in red, which itself is a symbolic color for love. The symbol of a red ivy leaf, so well known today, associated with the image of the loving heart, spread across Europe. The unique success of the heart shape can probably be traced back to the effect as a symbol for the female buttocks (curves) and the vulva of the woman (pointed, lower end). The psychology professor Galdino Pranzarone sees in this effect the overall background of the heart symbol.
The use of the symbol by devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Catholic Church also contributed greatly to its spread. The symbol was introduced into heraldry , and at the end of the 15th century the symbol on French playing cards replaced the chalice used on Italian tarot cards (see also Grail ).
The heart symbol has been used to represent the human heart since the 13th century. Earlier illustrations used a pine cone or pyramid shape based on the anatomically derived description of the Hippocratic school. After these findings were forgotten in the early Middle Ages, medical professionals adopted the leaf-shaped symbol in their representations.
In data processing
The heart symbol has existed as a special character since the beginning of the personal computer and was already part of the code page 437 , the character set of the first IBM PC. It is therefore still to be entered under Microsoft Windows with the key combination Alt+ 3on the numeric keypad.
Unicode contains various shapes of the heart symbol and also some complex symbols containing the heart symbol:
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Glyph , possibly with variants |
Unicode characters | Unicode name, notes | HTML code | Alt code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ☙ | U + 2619 | REVERSED ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET |
☙
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| ♡ | U + 2661 | WHITE HEART SUIT |
♡ or ♡
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Alt + 9825 |
| ♥ | U + 2665 | BLACK HEART SUIT ( playing card symbol ) |
♥or ♥or♥
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Alt + 3 |
| ❤ ❤️ | U + 2764 | HEAVY BLACK HEART |
❤
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| ❥ | U + 2765 | ROTATED HEAVY BLACK HEART BULLET |
❥
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| ❣ | U + 2763 | HEAVY HEART EXCLAMATION MARK ORNAMENT |
❣
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| ❦ | U + 2766 | FLORAL HEART (Aldus leaf ) |
❦
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Alt + 010086 |
| ❧ | U + 2767 | ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET |
❧
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Alt + 010087 |
| ? | U + 1F394 | HEART WITH TIP ON THE LEFT |
🎔
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| ? | U + 1F491 | COUPLE WITH HEART |
💑
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| ? | U + 1F493 | BEATING HEART |
💓
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| ? | U + 1F494 | BROKEN HEART |
💔
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| ? | U + 1F495 | TWO HEARTS |
💕
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| ? | U + 1F496 | SPARKLING HEART |
💖
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| ? | U + 1F497 | GROWING HEART |
💗
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| ? | U + 1F498 | HEART WITH ARROW |
💘
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| ? | U + 1F499 | BLUE HEART |
💙
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| ? | U + 1F49A | GREEN HEART |
💚
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| ? | U + 1F49B | YELLOW HEART |
💛
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| ? | U + 1F49C | PURPLE HEART |
💜
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| ? | U + 1F49D | HEART WITH RIBBON |
💝
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| ? | U + 1F49E | REVOLVING HEARTS |
💞
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| ? | U + 1F49F | HEART DECORATION |
💟
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| ? | U + 1F60D | SMILING FACE WITH HEART-SHAPED EYES |
😍
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| ? | U + 1F63B | SMILING CAT FACE WITH HEART-SHAPED EYES |
😻
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An emoticon "<3" (lying heart) is used in chat rooms , newspaper advertisements or SMS.
See also
- The heart in heraldry as a common figure .
- The heart as " color " (playing card symbol).
literature
- Armin Dietz: Eternal hearts. A short cultural history of heart burials . MMV Medien & Medizin Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-8208-1339-X .
- Cornelia Kruse, Marie-Louise von Plessen : With all my heart. This side and beyond of a symbol. Nicolai'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2004, ISBN 3-89479-185-3 .
- Ole Martin Høystad: Cultural History of the Heart: From Antiquity to the Present. Böhlau Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-412-28705-9 . (Quoted in: Peter Findeisen: The Qualities of the Heart in Psychotherapy. (PDF; 564 kB) 2006).
- Albert Walzer: The heart in the Christian faith. In: The heart. (Gedächtnisschrift für Ernst Boehringer) Ed. By Dr.-Karl-Thomae-GmbH, 3 volumes, Biberach an der Riß 1965–1969, pp. 107–150.
Individual evidence
- ^ Myths and History of Valentine's Day Far from Sugar Sweet. on: newswise.com October 1, 2010.
- ↑ How do I make a heart symbol with the keyboard? . herz-symbol.de. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
