Black Spade Suit
U+2660♠Emoji or pictograph · decimal ♠
Card Symbols Copy & Paste
Browse 103 card symbols covering pieces, suits and activities. The Playing Cards block supplies most of them. 96 render as text and 7 as emoji.
Copy card symbols
103 characters and sequences. Choose an entry and it copies straight away.
That search returns nothing in this set.
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Card Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
Here are 12 representative rows out of 103. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
Playing Card Ace Of Hearts
U+1F0B1🂱Symbol · decimal 🂱
White Chess Pawn
U+2659♙Symbol · decimal ♙
Playing Card Four Of Spades
U+1F0A4🂤Symbol · decimal 🂤
Playing Card Queen Of Spades
U+1F0AD🂭Symbol · decimal 🂭
Playing Card Nine Of Hearts
U+1F0B9🂹Symbol · decimal 🂹
Playing Card Five Of Diamonds
U+1F0C5🃅Symbol · decimal 🃅
Playing Card King Of Diamonds
U+1F0CE🃎Symbol · decimal 🃎
Playing Card Ten Of Clubs
U+1F0DA🃚Symbol · decimal 🃚
Playing Card Trump-3
U+1F0E3🃣Symbol · decimal 🃣
Playing Card Trump-13
U+1F0ED🃭Symbol · decimal 🃭
Flower Playing Cards
U+1F3B4🎴Emoji or pictograph · decimal 🎴
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Card Symbols: types, meanings and practical differences
Card suits and playing-card glyphs help with game notation, invitations and themed decorations.
Pieces, suits and dice. They suit notation, scores and match reports. That amounts to 103 copyable values here — 103 of them one character long, 0 longer.
Names such as Black Spade Suit, Playing Card Ace Of Hearts, White Chess Pawn, Playing Card Four Of Spades appear here, and counting every entry puts Playing Card Ace (4), Playing Card Two (4), Playing Card Three (4) at the top. Single-character values span U+2654 to U+1F3B4.
Browse card symbols by type
Emoji or pictograph
7 entries
Symbol
96 entries
What this inventory contains
Where card symbols sit in the code space
Counted across U+2654 to U+1F3B4, the general-category split is symbol 103.
How the official names cluster
Counted across the stored entries, the commonest name patterns are Playing Card Ace (4), Playing Card Two (4), Playing Card Three (4).
Sequence construction
Of the sequences, 0 rely on a zero-width joiner and 0 on a variation selector; 1 code points is the longest single entry.
Which one should you use
Watch out for Playing Card Ace Of Hearts next to Playing Card Four Of Spades. They are different characters: U+1F0B1 and U+1F0A4. Symbol is the safe default at 96 entries.
Leave emoji or pictograph unless nothing else fits. Colour or no colour is the first choice: 7 emoji, 96 plain. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
The grouping here follows practical use, not Unicode's formal categories.
96Symbol
Monochrome characters you can style like text. 93% here.
7Emoji or pictograph
Rendered in colour by Apple, Google or Microsoft. 7% here.
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Card Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
Pick from 103 card symbols on this page. 96 of them are symbol. They come mostly from one part of Unicode: Playing Cards. 96 are plain text. The other 7 are emoji, so your phone or computer draws them in colour.
How the 2 groups divide
Expect emoji or pictograph and symbol. 96 sit under symbol.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Playing Cards (82), Miscellaneous Symbols (20) and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (1). Across U+2654 to U+1F3B4, support gets patchy at the newer end.
The pair people mix up
Compare Playing Card Ace Of Hearts with Playing Card Four Of Spades. Same shape, different code point.
Emoji entries behave differently
7 are emoji, mostly from Activities. The device picks their colour.
Key words and ideas
These words describe the shapes, uses and character families you will meet in this collection.
- Emoji or pictograph
- Symbol
- Playing
- Card
- Suit
- Poker
- Spade
- Heart
- Diamond
- Club
- Hearts
- Chess
A quick choice checklist
- Match the meaning. Start with emoji or pictograph when that group fits your message.
- Read the name. Compare Black Spade Suit with Playing Card Ace Of Hearts before you pick by shape.
- Test the result. Paste the full value into the app, document, or profile where it will appear.
Playing-card symbols separate suits, ranks and card glyphs
Suit signs can support compact notation, while encoded playing-card characters represent particular ranks or special cards. A colorful emoji is not a complete deck system.
| Family | Examples | Notation rule |
|---|---|---|
| Black suits | ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ | State the rank in text when a complete card identity matters. |
| Outline suits | ♤ ♡ ♢ ♧ | These are separate characters, not an automatic unselected state. |
| Encoded cards | 🂡 🂱 🃁 🃑 | Each glyph maps to a particular suit and rank; verify the Unicode name. |
| Joker and back | 🃏 🂠 | A joker and card back have distinct roles in game diagrams. |
Practical note: For accessible game records, use established rank-and-suit notation such as A♠ beside the glyph. Do not rely on color because suit colors vary by deck design.
Read further
Compare these choices with chess symbols and dice symbols. For a deeper explanation, read How to Make Cool Symbol Combinations. A faster route to the same point: should i use text chess and card symbols or colorful emoji?.
Tip: Pair anything decorative with real text. That is what search engines index and what screen readers announce.
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How to use card symbols
Copying stores text, so the value survives the clipboard intact. Paste it with Ctrl V, ⌘ V or your device's Paste command.
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Game notation and puzzle diagrams
Start with Black Spade Suit. It works nearly everywhere.
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Scores, rankings and achievements
When handling scores, rankings and achievements, the 96 symbol entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Event names and community profiles
When creating event names and community profiles, paste the complete entry — all of these are single code points, so a partial copy is not a risk here.
Copy-ready card symbols examples for game notation and puzzle diagrams
Game notation and puzzle diagrams
♠ Card referenceScores, rankings and achievements
♠ ♡ ♢Event names and community profiles
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How to type these card symbols directly
You do not have to copy. Each code point below doubles as a keyboard code — decimal for a Windows alt code, hexadecimal for Word and macOS.
| Character | Name | Windows | Hex | HTML |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ♠ | Black Spade Suit | Alt 9824 | 2660 | ♠ |
| 🂱 | Playing Card Ace Of Hearts | Not available | 1F0B1 | 🂱 |
| ♙ | White Chess Pawn | Alt 9817 | 2659 | ♙ |
| 🂤 | Playing Card Four Of Spades | Not available | 1F0A4 | 🂤 |
| 🂭 | Playing Card Queen Of Spades | Not available | 1F0AD | 🂭 |
| 🂹 | Playing Card Nine Of Hearts | Not available | 1F0B9 | 🂹 |
Two limits apply to alt codes: a physical keypad, and a ceiling at U+FFFF. 83 entries here sit above that ceiling. Full per-platform instructions live in the keyboard guide.
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How card symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Most of these live in one place: Playing Cards holds 80% of them. The rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. 96 act like letters.
They take the colour of the text around them. The other 7 are emoji. Your phone or computer paints those in colour.
Unicode files the emoji ones under Activities. The newest here arrived in Emoji 0.6. Older phones show a blank box instead.
A pasted entry is redrawn by the receiving application's font. Expect small differences in width and weight across devices, and larger ones where a font lacks the character entirely.
103Single characters
0Sequences
7Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with card symbols
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Mixing up Black Spade Suit and Playing Card Ace Of Hearts.
- 2
Assuming all 103 behave the same way in every font.
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Treating these card symbols as interchangeable with the visually similar characters in chess symbols.
- 4
Reaching for one of the 7 emoji entries where a text mark was needed, so the colour artwork clashes with the surrounding type.
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Card Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Playing Card Ace Of Hearts and Playing Card Four Of Spades?+
Different code points, similar shapes. Playing Card Ace Of Hearts sits at U+1F0B1 and Playing Card Four Of Spades at U+1F0A4, so search, sorting and screen readers treat them as unrelated characters even where they look the same.
What is the HTML code for black spade suit?+
Write ♠ (hex) or ♠ (decimal) to get ♠. Numeric references sidestep encoding problems in older toolchains.
Which card symbols work as plain text rather than emoji?+
96 of the 103 are ordinary text characters. They take the colour and weight of the surrounding font, which suits documents, code and interface labels. The other 7 are emoji and arrive as colour artwork you cannot restyle.
Which Unicode block are these card symbols in?+
Chiefly Playing Cards, which accounts for 82; the rest come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Will these card symbols work on older phones?+
The newest entry on this page was introduced in Emoji 0.6. Devices that have not received a font update since then will show a blank rectangle instead. Test on a real older device before using a recent character where the meaning matters.
Which card symbol should I choose?+
Watch out for <b>Playing Card Ace Of Hearts</b> next to <b>Playing Card Four Of Spades</b>. They are different characters: U+1F0B1 and U+1F0A4. <b>Symbol</b> is the safe default at <b>96</b> entries. Leave emoji or pictograph unless nothing else fits. Colour or no colour is the first choice: <b>7</b> emoji, <b>96</b> plain. Test the result in the real app before you use it.
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Learn more about card symbols
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The Symbol Maker assembles any of these into a framed, copyable line. The Unicode tools hub compares all seven and says when each is the right choice.
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The data behind this page
All counts derive from the 103 values actually stored for this collection. Rather than curating names by hand, this page reads them from the Unicode 17.0 database, and takes emoji membership from the standard's own data files.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data