U+2660 "♠" Black Spade Suit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♠
U+2660 "♠" Black Spade Suit is a standardized digital symbol representing one of the four suits found in traditional playing cards, often associated with the ace of spades in card games. Its design typically features a stylized, pointed leaf or heart shape atop a short stem, with the entire symbol rendered in solid black for clear visibility across various fonts and platforms. Beyond card games, this character is widely used in text messaging, social media, and graphic design to convey concepts of strategy, luck, or gambling, and it also appears in mathematical or logical notation as a decorative element.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2660 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Spade Suit |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ♠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ♠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x99 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2660 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002660 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2660 |