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U+2660 · BLACK SPADE SUIT

Black Spade Suit

  • CodepointU+2660
  • NameBLACK SPADE SUIT
  • Emoji namespade suit
  • Decimal9824
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthA — Ambiguous
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2660 (♠) is BLACK SPADE SUIT, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “spade suit”, in the Activities group, subgroup game. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2660 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

Its East Asian Width is Ambiguous: it takes one column in Western contexts and two in East Asian legacy contexts, a common cause of misaligned tables in terminals.

How to type ♠

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 99 A03 bytes
UTF-1626601 code unit
UTF-32000026604 bytes
HTML named♠named character reference
HTML named♠named character reference
HTML decimal♠
HTML hex♠
CSS\2660in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2660
JSON\u2660
Python\u2660
Python\N{BLACK SPADE SUIT}by name
Java / C#\u2660
C / C++\u2660universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2660}
Go\u2660
Ruby\u2660
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9824)
URL-encoded%E2%99%A0percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
U+265A♚Black Chess King U+265B♛Black Chess Queen U+265C♜Black Chess Rook U+265D♝Black Chess Bishop U+265E♞Black Chess Knight U+265F♟Black Chess Pawn U+2661♡White Heart Suit U+2662♢White Diamond Suit U+2663♣Black Club Suit U+2664♤White Spade Suit U+2665♥Black Heart Suit U+2666♦Black Diamond Suit