Press Ctrl + ⌘ Command + ⎵ Space to bring up the Character Viewer. Alternatively, choose Edit ⇒ Emoji & Symbols Type “Spade” in the search field at the top and press Enter The symbol should appear.

All you have to do is to copy the symbol from somewhere like a web page, or the character map for windows users, and head over to where you need the symbol (say in Word or Excel), then hit Ctrl+V to paste. Below is the symbol for you to copy and paste into your Word document.

As a standard symbol, you should also be able to copy and paste the 'black spade suit' symbol (or the HTML entity ♠) in your browser or on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. On many devices, you can use the shortcode :spades: to add the black spade suit emoji to your messages.