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Spade suit
U+2660 · Miscellaneous Symbols
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Meaning and uses
The black spade from a deck of cards. It is used in card games and poker talk, and as a sharp, bold decoration in names.
Unicode details
♠ is the Unicode character named BLACK SPADE SUIT, code point U+2660, in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It was added in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, and Unicode classes it as a symbol (general category So).
It can also appear as an emoji, listed under the name “spade suit”. Plain text is its default, but some apps draw it in colour anyway. Adding the invisible variation selector U+FE0F after it asks for the emoji style, and U+FE0E asks for plain text.
| Unicode name | BLACK SPADE SUIT |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+2660 |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| Added | Unicode 1.1 (1993) |
| Emoji name | spade suit |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 A0 |
| UTF-16 | 2660 |
| HTML | ♠ or ♠ |
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How to type ♠
- On any device, tap the copy button above, then paste with a long press on a phone, Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on a Mac.
- On a phone, it is on the emoji keyboard: search for “spade suit”. On Windows, press the Windows key and the full stop (Win+.) to open the emoji panel and search there.
- On a Mac, press Control+Cmd+Space to open the Character Viewer, then search for “spade suit”.
- On Linux, most desktops accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2660, then Space or Enter.
- In HTML, use
♠or♠. In a CSScontentproperty, use"\2660".