U+2663 "♣" Black Club Suit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
♣
U+2663 "♣" Black Club Suit is a typographic symbol representing the club suit from a standard deck of playing cards, where it is one of the four suits alongside hearts, diamonds, and spades. Its design typically features a three leafed clover shape attached to a short stem, often rendered in solid black in digital fonts. Historically, the club suit is believed to derive from the acorn symbol in early German playing cards, which evolved into the trefoil shape used in French decks that later influenced modern international cards. In Unicode, this character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is commonly used in card game notations, decorative contexts, or as a metaphor for good luck or luck of the draw.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2663 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Club 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2663 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002663 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2663 |