♠️Spade Suit Emoji
Generally, the spade emoji means "spade" from a deck of cards. It's often used to reference poker or card games in general.
The ♠️ emoji represents the spade suit from a deck of playing cards.
- Unicode
- U+2660 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :spades:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ♠️ Spade Suit emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as spade emoji.
Spade Suit emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2660 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your spade suit looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Spade Suit emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :spades:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+2660.
How to type the ♠️ Spade Suit emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Spade Suit emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the spade suit as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Spade Suit emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around spade suit for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ♠️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ♠️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What ♠️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the ♠️ Spade Suit emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+2660 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
♠️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E68E, KDDI au E5A1, SoftBank E20E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Spade Suit was approved as U+2660 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ♠️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.