Playing Cards (Unicode block)

The Unicode block Playing Cards contains a full 56-card deck for the Minor Arcana (i.e. a standard 52-card deck with King, Queen and Jack picture court cards, and a Knight in all four suits) three jokers, 21 trump card images of the Major Arcana, and a backside.

Playing Cards
RangeU+1F0A0..U+1F0FF
(96 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsPlaying cards symbols
Assigned82 code points
Unused14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 (2010)59 (+59)
7.0 (2014)82 (+23)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Unification

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Unicode unifies several ranks that may be considered different by some players:

  • Ace with One (1)
  • Jack with Page and Under Knave
  • Knight with Cavalier and Over Knave


It also unifies the various suits, using the English names for the French pattern:

  • Spades with Leaves, Shields, Pikes and Swords
  • Hearts with Roses and Cups
  • Diamonds with Tiles, Bells, Coins and Pentacles
  • Clubs with Clovers, Batons, Wands and Acorns

Proposals to disunify mundane playing cards from esoteric, arcane tarot cards have been rejected in 2011.[citation needed]

Chart

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Playing Cards[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1F0Ax 🂠 🂡 🂢 🂣 🂤 🂥 🂦 🂧 🂨 🂩 🂪 🂫 🂬 🂭 🂮
U+1F0Bx 🂱 🂲 🂳 🂴 🂵 🂶 🂷 🂸 🂹 🂺 🂻 🂼 🂽 🂾 🂿
U+1F0Cx 🃁 🃂 🃃 🃄 🃅 🃆 🃇 🃈 🃉 🃊 🃋 🃌 🃍 🃎 🃏
U+1F0Dx 🃑 🃒 🃓 🃔 🃕 🃖 🃗 🃘 🃙 🃚 🃛 🃜 🃝 🃞 🃟
U+1F0Ex 🃠 🃡 🃢 🃣 🃤 🃥 🃦 🃧 🃨 🃩 🃪 🃫 🃬 🃭 🃮 🃯
U+1F0Fx 🃰 🃱 🃲 🃳 🃴 🃵
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

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The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF 🃏 PLAYING CARD BLACK JOKER.[3][4]

History

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Playing Cards block:

References

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  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2020-02-11.
  4. ^ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2021-08-26.