Technical information

Symbol
NameBlack spade suit
Unicode numberU+2660
CategoryCards
DescriptionThe Unicode character ♠, or U+2660, is known as the "Black Spade Suit". It belongs to the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. As the name suggests, it's represented by the symbol of a spade, black in color. This symbol is often used in the context of card games, specifically to represent one of the four suits in a deck of playing cards, the spades. It can also be used in various other contexts due to its iconic and widely recognized shape.

Encoding

HTML Entity♠
HTML Entity (hex)♠
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%99%A0
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x99 0xA0
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10011001:10100000
UTF-160x2660
UTF-320x00002660

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2660"
CSS Code\2660
JavaScript"\u2660"
Perl\x{2660}
Python 2u"\u2660"
Python 3\u2660
Ruby\u{2660}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ♠ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9824;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2660";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References