There is no keyboard shortcut for typing a heart in macOS, but you can use the Symbol Viewer to insert one. You can enable the Symbol Viewer from the System Preferences menu.


The Apple menu is always accessible, regardless of what program is open.
 This will display various settings categories for your Mac computer.
 This will open your input settings.
 The box is labeled "Show viewers for keyboard, symbols, and emoji in the menu bar." This will add a new button to your menu bar at the top of the screen.
 You'll see a few options for different input viewers.
 A new window will appear with a bunch of different symbols.
 This will display all of the different emoji characters that are available, broken down into different categories.
 You'll see several different hearts at the top of the list.
 It will be inserted wherever your cursor currently is active.


There's another heart symbol in the "Pictographs" section. This is meant to be used as the playing card symbol.
Click the Apple menu in the upper-left corner.
Select "System Preferences" from the Apple menu.
Click "Keyboard.",
Check the box at the bottom of the Keyboard window.
Click the new Viewer button in the menu bar.
Select "Show Emoji & Symbols.",
Click the "Emoji" category.
Select "Symbols.",
Double-click the heart symbol you want to insert.
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