Black Spade Suit
On Windows, hold Alt and type 6 on the numeric keypad to insert black spade suit.
- Alt code
- Alt+6
- HTML entity
- ♠
- Unicode
- U+2660
About this symbol
Spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs are the French suits, which appeared in France in the late fifteenth century and spread to most of the world. The ace of spades is often the most decorated card in a British pack, a custom that goes back to the tax stamp once printed on it.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- BLACK SPADE SUIT
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Playing card symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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