The heart symbol, with its two scallops on top and V-shaped point at the bottom, is one of the world’s most familiar emblems—found everywhere from jewelry to emojis to the Valentine’s Day promotions ...

If you’ve ever felt annoyed scrolling a page full of random symbols with no deeper explanation, that feeling isn’t your imagination. It's because almost all ranking content treats symbols as static ...

Sweethearts Candy may be gone this Valentine's Day, but that shape – you know the one! – is everywhere. The iconic symbol of love looks nothing like the human organ. Why? Blame Aristotle, or maybe a ...

Everyone knows the heart symbol, but almost nobody knows where it actually comes from — and it isn’t the human heart. The shape traces back to an extinct plant used in the ancient world as medicine, ...

You might think that the heart symbol and romantic love have always been bedfellows. But you’d be wrong. At times, the symbol was just a decoration. At others, it meant spiritual, chaste love. At ...

The heart sign has entered the Oxford English Dictionary as the first graphical symbol to signify a word in the reference work's 127-year history. The symbol is among 45,437 new words and meanings ...