Playing cards in Unicode

{{Short description|Unicode for depicting playing cards' fonts and symbols}}

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the handling of fonts and symbols. Within it is a set of code points representing playing cards, and another depicting the French card suits.

Card suits

{{see also|Miscellaneous Symbols}}

The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the following, at U+2660–2667:

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
U+2660U+2665U+2666U+2663
style="font-size:200%;"

|♠

Black Spade SuitBlack Heart SuitBlack Diamond SuitBlack Club Suit
{{mono|1=♠}}{{mono|1=♥}}{{mono|1=♦}}{{mono|1=♣}}
U+2664U+2661U+2662U+2667
style="font-size:200%;"

|♤

White Spade SuitWhite Heart SuitWhite Diamond SuitWhite Club Suit

Playing cards deck

Unicode's Playing Cards block (U+1F0A0–1F0FF) has code points for the 52 cards of the standard French deck plus the Knight (Ace, 2–10, Jack, Knight, Queen, and King for each of the four suits), three jokers (red, black, and white), the back of a card, The Fool, and generic trump cards numbered 1–21. The depiction of these trump cards in most supporting fonts is based on the Bourgeois Tarot.

class="wikitable unicode" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%;"
U+1F0A1U+1F0B1U+1F0C1U+1F0D1
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂡

🂱🃁🃑
Ace of SpadesAce of HeartsAce of DiamondsAce of Clubs
U+1F0A2U+1F0B2U+1F0C2U+1F0D2
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂢

🂲🃂🃒
Two of SpadesTwo of HeartsTwo of DiamondsTwo of Clubs
U+1F0A3U+1F0B3U+1F0C3U+1F0D3
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂣

🂳🃃🃓
Three of SpadesThree of HeartsThree of DiamondsThree of Clubs
U+1F0A4U+1F0B4U+1F0C4U+1F0D4
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂤

🂴🃄🃔
Four of SpadesFour of HeartsFour of DiamondsFour of Clubs
U+1F0A5U+1F0B5U+1F0C5U+1F0D5
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂥

🂵🃅🃕
Five of SpadesFive of HeartsFive of DiamondsFive of Clubs
U+1F0A6U+1F0B6U+1F0C6U+1F0D6
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂦

🂶🃆🃖
Six of SpadesSix of HeartsSix of DiamondsSix of Clubs
U+1F0A7U+1F0B7U+1F0C7U+1F0D7
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂧

🂷🃇🃗
Seven of SpadesSeven of HeartsSeven of DiamondsSeven of Clubs
U+1F0A8U+1F0B8U+1F0C8U+1F0D8
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂨

🂸🃈🃘
Eight of SpadesEight of HeartsEight of DiamondsEight of Clubs
U+1F0A9U+1F0B9U+1F0C9U+1F0D9
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂩

🂹🃉🃙
Nine of SpadesNine of HeartsNine of DiamondsNine of Clubs
U+1F0AAU+1F0BAU+1F0CAU+1F0DA
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂪

🂺🃊🃚
Ten of SpadesTen of HeartsTen of DiamondsTen of Clubs
U+1F0ABU+1F0BBU+1F0CBU+1F0DB
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂫

🂻🃋🃛
Jack of SpadesJack of HeartsJack of DiamondsJack of Clubs
U+1F0ACU+1F0BCU+1F0CCU+1F0DC
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂬

🂼🃌🃜
Knight of SpadesKnight of HeartsKnight of DiamondsKnight of Clubs
U+1F0ADU+1F0BDU+1F0CDU+1F0DD
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂭

🂽🃍🃝
Queen of SpadesQueen of HeartsQueen of DiamondsQueen of Clubs
U+1F0AEU+1F0BEU+1F0CEU+1F0DE
style="font-size:400%;"

|🂮

🂾🃎🃞
King of SpadesKing of HeartsKing of DiamondsKing of Clubs

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%;"
U+1F0A0

!U+1F0BF

!U+1F0CF

!U+1F0DF

style="font-size:400%;"

|🂠

|🂿

|🃏︎

|🃟

Playing Card Back

|Red Joker

|Black Joker

|White Joker

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:85%;"
U+1F0E0U+1F0E1U+1F0E2U+1F0E3
style="font-size:400%;"

|🃠

🃡🃢🃣
FoolTrump-1 (individual)Trump-2 (childhood)Trump-3 (youth)
U+1F0E4U+1F0E5U+1F0E6U+1F0E7
style="font-size:400%;"

|🃤

🃥🃦🃧
Trump-4 (maturity)Trump-5 (old age)Trump-6 (morning)Trump-7 (afternoon)
U+1F0E8U+1F0E9U+1F0EAU+1F0EB
style="font-size:400%;"

|🃨

🃩🃪🃫
Trump-8 (evening)Trump-9 (night)Trump-10 (earth and air)Trump-11 (water and fire)
U+1F0ECU+1F0EDU+1F0EEU+1F0EF
style="font-size:400%;"

|🃬

🃭🃮🃯
Trump-12 (dance)Trump-13 (shopping)Trump-14 (open air)Trump-15 (visual arts)
U+1F0F0U+1F0F1U+1F0F2U+1F0F3
style="font-size:400%;"

|🃰

🃱🃲🃳
Trump-16 (spring)Trump-17 (summer)Trump-18 (autumn)Trump-19 (winter)
U+1F0F4U+1F0F5
style="font-size:400%;"

|🃴

🃵
Trump-20 (the game)Trump-21 (collective)

Tarot

Four Knights of the Tarot deck were included when the Playing Cards Unicode block was added in Unicode 6.0 (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). In Unicode 7.0, a red joker, a fool, and twenty-one generic trump cards were added to the Playing Cards block, with the reference description being not the Italian-suited Tarot de Marseille or its derivatives (which are often used in cartomancy) but the French Tarot Nouveau used to play Jeu de tarot, which is used for divination less frequently.

Playing Cards block chart

{{see also|Playing Cards (Unicode block)}}

{{Unicode chart Playing Cards}}

Emoji

The Playing Cards block contains one emoji:

{{unichar|1F0CF|PLAYING CARD BLACK JOKER}}.{{Cite web|url=https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/|title=UTR #51: Unicode Emoji|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2023-09-05}}{{Cite web|url=https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt|title=UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51|publisher=Unicode Consortium|date=2023-02-01}}

The emoji presentation sequences refine and colorize the text presentation of the playing card suits. ♠︎♥︎♦︎♣︎ becomes ♠️♥️♦️♣️. This was done by appending the U+FE0F code point to the textual code points shown far above. For example, the black heart suit ♥ becomes the red heart emoji by ♥️. Conversely, the black heart suit can be coerced by appending U+FE0E with ♥︎. These hold for each suit.{{cite web |title=Emoji Presentation Sequences |url=https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-variants.html |website=unicode.org |publisher=Unicode, Inc. |access-date=13 September 2022}}

There is an emoji for Japanese hanafuda (flower playing cards): {{unichar|1F3B4|Flower Playing Cards}}. The emoji can stand for any hanafuda card but it is usually depicted as the Moon card specifically.

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