Unicode Character "♠" (U+2660)

The character ♠ (Black Spade Suit) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+2660. It is encoded in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ♠.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Black Spade Suit
Unicode Codepoint U+2660
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Miscellaneous Symbols
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+2660 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ♠
HTML (hex) ♠
HTML (named) ♠
URL Escape Code %E2%99%A0
CSS \002660
JavaScript, JSON \u2660
C, C++, Java \u2660
Python \u2660
Rust \u{2660}
Ruby \u2660

How to type "♠"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 2 6 6 0. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 2 6 6 0. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ♠
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ♠
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ♠
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE2 0x99 0xA0
UTF-16 (hex) 0x2660
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00002660

References