Spade suit emoji meaning

The spade suit emoji ♠️ is one of the four playing card suits. The spade suit is typically colored black and shaped like a pointed leaf with a stem. The emoji was added to Unicode in 1993 and can be used to represent playing cards, card games, or gambling. It can also be used more generally to represent the idea of something being "high stakes" or "serious business." The spade suit emoji appears in black on most platforms, with some versions showing a more stylized or cartoonish design.

The spade suit emoji was approved in Unicode 1.1 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/14093L2/13207