That's not an emoji, though. The symbol is ‘black heart suit’, and it's in unicode since 1993: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665 https://www.compart.com

That's not an emoji, though. The symbol is ‘black heart suit’, and it's in unicode since 1993: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665 Whereas emojis appeared even on Japanese phones in 1997, and were introduced in Unicode in 2010.