U+1F0AE "🂮" Playing Card King of Spades Unicode Character

U+1F0AE "🂮" Playing Card King of Spades is a visual representation of the king from the spades suit in a standard French deck of playing cards, typically depicted as a crowned male figure holding a scepter or sword. This character is part of the Unicode playing cards block and is encoded in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, allowing it to be used in digital text to represent the card itself. Its inclusion in Unicode enables consistent rendering across different platforms and applications, making it useful for digital card games, emoji-style communication, or any context where a playing card symbol is needed. The design of the king may vary slightly depending on the font or system used, but it generally maintains the classic imagery associated with the highest face card in spades.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F0AE
Version Added	6.0
Name	Playing Card King 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 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDCAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F0AE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udcae

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