♠️
What ♠️ means
A black upside-down heart with a tiny stem following the same outline at the bottom. The ♠️ Spade Suit emoji has a direct reference to playing cards and other frameworks that may use these cards.
How and when to use it
- Historically, spades have symbolized the nobility aka the military. Essentially, ♠️ may also mean a 'sword' in terms of pips or symbols. Hence, you could use this emoji in the context of war, history, sword fighting, pretty much anything to do with swords and fighting.
- Also, ♠️ looks like a leaf as well, which thus links to the cosmic tree. So, if you're into Tarot; a reader, an enthusiast, or just someone who likes Tarot, then you can use ♠️ if you're referring to intellect or death.
- There's not just a queen of hearts, there's a queen of spades as well and she is an interpretation of death. Keeping this angle in mind, and the previous point, but not exactly from a Tarot POV, ♠️ fits fine if you're inferring death in any context.
- Lastly, use ♠️ to indicate that you're playing, if you're inviting someone over for a game, or if you're sharing a social media post/story of the same.
Other Names
- ♠️ Spades
- ♠️ Sword
- ♠️ Trick Taking
- ♠️ Spades Playing Cards
- ♠️ Leaf-Shaped Pips
- ♠️ Heart Symbol
- ♠️ Cosmic Tree
The lowdown
- Category
- Activities › game
- Codepoints
U+2660 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:spades:GitHub- Keywords
- card, game, spade, suit
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ♠️ Spade Suit or 🔉 Speaker Medium Volume?