U+1F0A8 "🂨" Playing Card Eight of Spades Unicode Character

U+1F0A8 "🂨" Playing Card Eight of Spades is a specific code point in the Unicode standard's Playing Cards block, representing the eight of spades from a standard French-suited deck. It features the black spade symbol and the numeral eight, typically depicted in the upper left and lower right corners, with eight spade pips arranged in two columns of four in the center. This character is used in digital text to represent a card in card games, magic tricks, or design elements, and it is encoded in UTF-8 as the four byte sequence F0 9F 82 A8.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F0A8
Version Added	6.0
Name	Playing Card Eight 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 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDCA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F0A8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udca8

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