U+1F0A1 "🂡" Playing Card Ace of Spades Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+1F0A1 "🂡" Playing Card Ace of Spades is a graphical symbol belonging to the Unicode Playing Cards block, specifically representing the highest-ranking ace in the spades suit with a single spade symbol at its center. This character is part of a standardized set of 52 playing card glyphs, plus jokers and card backs, encoded for digital use in fonts and emoji systems. In many card games, the Ace of Spades holds special significance, often serving as a marker of luck, power, or death, and historically it was used by tax authorities to stamp decks as proof that the tax had been paid. The Unicode encoding ensures that this icon can be consistently displayed across different platforms and software for use in digital card games, messaging, or text-based representations of traditional playing cards.

General Properties

Code Point U+1F0A1
Version Added 6.0
Name Playing Card Ace of Spades
Block Playing Cards
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 🂡
HTML Hex Encoding 🂡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9F 0x82 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83C 0xDCA1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001F0A1
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83c\udca1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
Script Common
Script Extensions Common
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break Other