Talk:Heart symbol

Requested move 19 November 2019

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The result of the move request was: Consensus to move. (closed by non-admin page mover)  SITH   (talk)   11:01, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Heart (symbol) → Heart symbol – Per WP:NATURAL and hazard symbol. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 01:09, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Support natural disambiguation. I would be equally in favour of Heart shape. That's how it's currently referred to in the lead sentence, and many source links to this article use 'heart shape' or 'heart-shaped' as their pipe text. Colin M (talk) 02:36, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. It's a symbol in the shape of a heart, not a heart. Station1 (talk) 04:15, 19 November 2019 (UTC)


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Minecraft influential in symbolising health?
The article currently claims: "Heart symbols were used to symbolize "health" or "lives" in video games; influentially so in The Legend of Zelda (1986) and Minecraft (2009)."

There's no citation for this. Legend of Zelda I can certainly see, but I think the convention was around long before 2009 with Minecraft. It was a popular use of hearts, sure, but I'm not sure about influential. I figure I should probably ask here though instead of removing it, because how influential it actually was is a mystery to me and I can't find any sources on that. MoofEMP (talk) 14:06, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Toprak Kala wall painting
Hi, I was wandering through some Khwarezm castles - through wikipedia - when I saw this image that made me awe. I could only interpret it as a man looking affectionately to an embracing person, and full of red hearts all around. It surprised me to find the heart symbol at such time painted in the same manner that is still in use.

The image is present at this wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toprak-Kala

It describes it as being from 2nd - 3nd century CE.

I guess it makes the date of our dear hearts a thousand years earlier than we thought? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Okwaru (talk • contribs) 17:07, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

British Museum, Gold Parthian Belt Buckle
Hi, I recently visited the British Museum, 6th September 2022, and I noticed a gold Parthian period belt buckle from the 1st-3rd century AD which depicted an eagle with outstretched wings and a very convincing heart symbol on the left hand breast of the eagle. It even appears that it had pigment or possibly a stone inlaid inside the heart symbol.

It would be interesting if some analysis could be done on the material inside the heart to establish if it was originally red. WanderingThought (talk) 00:05, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

the mystery of the altered emoji

 * And from the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs ranges associated with emoji:

Nothing in the following table looks like a heart to me; most of it is faces. How about you? —Tamfang (talk) 22:56, 17 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Aand now they're hearts. The server is gaslighting me. —Tamfang (talk) 06:16, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

For someone better at math than I am...
All the other mathematical examples show the equations to describe them, except for this one. Can you please figure out an equation to go with this version of a heart-shaped graph?


 * [[Image:Simple 4-quadrant heart curve.svg]]
 * The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 23:44, 13 September 2023 (UTC)


 * As its caption says, that one (unlike the others) is made from two perpendicular lines and two circular arcs; no one simple expression can define it. --Tamfang (talk) 02:20, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a contour of resembling a Taylor series in x and y ? —Tamfang (talk) 05:09, 19 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry I didn't see your comment before -- four equations (one for each quadrant) are given on the image description page... AnonMoos (talk) 08:32, 6 October 2023 (UTC)