U+2660 Black Spade Suit
U+2660 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Ambiguous East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+2660 behaves as Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “spade suit” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: card, game.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Spades form one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck. It has the same shape as the leaf symbol in German-suited cards but its appearance is more akin to that of an upside down black heart with a stalk at its base. It symbolises the pike or halberd, two medieval weapons.
In French the suit of Spades is known as the Pique and in German as the Pik. It corresponds to the suit of leaves (Laub, Grün, Schippen or, in Bavaria, Gras) in the German suited playing cards. In Switzerland, the suit is known as Schuufle ('shovel') and in many German regions, e.g., the Rhineland, as Schüppe/Schippe ('shovel').
In bridge, spades rank as the highest suit. In skat and similar games, it is the second-highest suit.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 9824 |
UTF-8 | E2 99 A0 |
UTF-16 | 26 60 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 26 60 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%99%A0 |
HTML hex reference | ♠ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â™ |
HTML named entity | ♠ |
HTML named entity | ♠ |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A2 BC |
LATEX | \ding{171} |
AGL: Latin-5 | spade |
Adobe Glyph List | spade |
Adobe Glyph List | spadesuitblack |
digraph | cS |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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