About Black Club Suit
Black Club Suit is the Unicode character ♣ at codepoint U+2663 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Reference
Unicode's chart sends you from this character to U+2618 SHAMROCK, which is a better clue to the drawing than the English name is. The French deck calls the suit trèfle — clover — and the three-lobed glyph is exactly that: a trefoil on a stem. The usual telling is that English kept the word club from the Italian and Spanish decks, whose matching suit really was a cudgel, while adopting the French picture instead.
So the name and the shape come from two different card traditions, and only the shape is in the font. It also means anyone matching this against a shamrock or a four-leaf clover in text is matching characters that merely look alike at small sizes.
KS X 1001 encoded it at 0x2240 and all three Japanese carriers had it, which put it in the first emoji set.
Typical uses
- The club suit in card, poker and bridge notation
- Standing in for a clover where no better character is at hand
- Decorative marks and dividers in plain text
Also encoded as
- KS X 1001 — 0x2240 (0xA2C0 in Unified Hangul Code)
- DoCoMo 0xF8F1, KDDI 0xF7C0, SoftBank 0xF7AF (Shift-JIS)
- Unicode 1.1 (1993), Miscellaneous Symbols; emoji since E0.6
- Cross-referenced to U+2618 SHAMROCK; hollow counterpart U+2667
Developer Notes
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How to Use Black Club Suit
To use the Black Club Suit symbol (♣) in HTML, insert the
entity ♣ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ♣ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2663';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2663' evaluates to ♣. In Python source, write '\u2663'.
The character encodes to E2 99 A3 as UTF-8 bytes and 2663 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9827.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.