Card Symbols
Copy classic card symbols instantly: solid suits ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣, outline suits ♤ ♡ ♢ ♧, jokers 🂿 🃏, and complete tarot and card deck characters. On Windows, Alt + 3 types ♥ and Alt + 6 types ♠.
Click any symbol to copy it. 68 symbols
Solid card suits
4Outline card suits
4Spades suit cards
14Hearts suit cards
14Diamonds suit cards
14Clubs suit cards
14Card back and jokers
4Evolution of the four classic French playing card suits
The four traditional playing card suits—Spades ♠, Hearts ♥, Diamonds ♦, and Clubs ♣—emerged in fifteenth-century France, simplified from earlier German and Latin decks to facilitate efficient woodblock and stencil printing. Each suit historically symbolized a distinct social class: Spades represented military pikes and the nobility, Hearts stood for the church and clergy, Diamonds symbolized merchant paving tiles, and Clubs evoked clover trefoils and peasantry.
In modern computer typography, these four emblems are among the most versatile dingbats available. Beyond card game reporting and poker strategy hand histories, they serve as bullet markers, decorative brackets, and rating icons. For related gaming marks, check our chess symbols and dice symbols, or explore emotional heart designs in our heart symbols guide.
The complete 52-card Unicode deck and tarot trumps
While the four basic suits have existed in computing since the earliest terminal character sets, Unicode 6.0 introduced the dedicated Playing Cards block (U+1F0A0 through U+1F0FF). This block encodes individual characters for every card in a standard 52-card deck, including numerical pips, face cards (Jack, Queen, King), knights for 78-card French tarot, multiple jokers, and even a decorative card back 🂠 (U+1F0A0).
These specialized card glyphs allow game developers, poker bloggers, and forum administrators to display exact card holdings like the Ace of Spades 🂡 or King of Hearts 🂾 in plain text without loading external sprite sheets.
Legacy IBM PC numeric keypad codes for suit symbols
On Windows systems, card suits feature some of the oldest and most famous numeric alt codes in personal computing history, dating back to DOS Code Page 437. Holding down the Alt key while typing single digits on the numeric keypad generates suits instantly: Alt + 3 types ♥, Alt + 4 types ♦, Alt + 5 types ♣, and Alt + 6 types ♠. In HTML documents, you can also use classic named character entities such as ♠, ♥, ♦, and ♣.
Frequently asked questions
What are the four playing card suits in order?
The traditional suits are Spades ♠, Hearts ♥, Diamonds ♦, and Clubs ♣, along with their outline versions ♤, ♡, ♢, and ♧.
What are the alt codes for card suits?
On Windows with a numeric keypad: Alt + 3 types ♥, Alt + 4 types ♦, Alt + 5 types ♣, and Alt + 6 types ♠.
What is the HTML code for card suits?
Use ♠ for ♠, ♥ for ♥, ♦ for ♦, and ♣ for ♣. Outline suits use numeric codes like ♤ for ♤.
Does Unicode have symbols for every playing card?
Yes! Unicode 6.0 introduced the Playing Cards block (U+1F0A0 to U+1F0FF), which includes individual characters for all 52 cards, knights, and jokers.