How to type Black Club
To type Black Club (♣), press Alt + 5 on Windows, holding Alt while typing the digits on the numeric keypad, or write ♣ in HTML. On any system you can copy it from this page, or enter its codepoint U+2663 directly: Ctrl+Shift+U then 2663 on Linux, or 2663 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word.
Black Club Suit
- Copy it
- Unicode
- U+2663
- Windows
- Alt + 5
| Where | Shortcut | How |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Alt + 5 | Hold Alt and type the number on the numeric keypad. |
| Mac | N/A | Press the keys together. |
| HTML | ♣ | Paste this into HTML source. |
| Unicode | U+2663 | BLACK CLUB SUIT |
Symbols related to Black Club
These are filed under card in CLDR, the keyword list Unicode publishes alongside the names.
Other symbols
♣ lives in the Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600-U+26FF), weather, astrology, religion, games and a wide miscellany. Within Unicode it is classified as So, a symbol.
What Black Club is used for
In mathematical notation ♣ is an ordinary symbol: it carries no special spacing and sits in an expression the way a letter does, standing for a thing rather than doing something to the things around it. That is the classification unicode-math gives it, and it is what decides how the symbol is set: $\clubsuit$ in LaTeX, in maths mode rather than in a sentence.
Unicode publishes a second list of names for ♣ in CLDR, the keywords its own search data offers rather than the formal name, and they are club suit, card, clubs and game. Those words are what somebody looking for this character is liable to type when Black Club is not the name they know it by, and the search on the symbol lists matches them as well as the Unicode name.
What Unicode says about Black Club
The code chart points from ♣ to shamrock (U+2618). These are the characters the standard thinks you might have meant instead, which makes them the ones worth checking when Black Club looks nearly right but not quite.
How Black Club behaves in software
♣ is East Asian Ambiguous: one column in a Western locale and two in a CJK one. That is why a table that lines up on your machine can break on somebody else's, with no change to the text at all. It carries no direction of its own, so in a line that mixes English with Arabic or Hebrew it takes the direction of the text around it rather than forcing one.
What people ask about Black Club
What is a club symbol?
♣ is BLACK CLUB SUIT, encoded at U+2663. It is distinct from shamrock (U+2618), which the chart lists beside it precisely because they are confused for one another.
Every way to write Black Club
| Form | Value |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+2663 |
| Decimal | 9827 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 99 A3 |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26 63 |
| HTML entity | ♣ |
| HTML numeric | ♣ or ♣ |
| CSS | \2663 |
| JavaScript | \u2663 |
| Python | \u2663 |
| URL-encoded | %E2%99%A3 |
| LaTeX, in maths mode | $\clubsuit$ |
| SVG | 2663.svg · (SIL Open Font License) |
If ♣ arrives as ♣
Its three UTF-8 bytes E2 99 A3 are being read one at a time as Windows-1252. The text is undamaged; the reader has to be told it is UTF-8.