Playing cards in Unicode
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Playing Cards | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1F0A0..U+1F0FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Playing cards symbols |
| Assigned | 82 code points |
| Unused | 14 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 | 59 (+59) |
| 7.0 | 82 (+23) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the handling of fonts and symbols. Within it is a set of images depicting playing cards, and another depicting the French card suits.
Card suits
The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the following, at U+2660–2667:
| U+2660 | U+2665 | U+2666 | U+2663 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ♠ | ♥ | ♦ | ♣ |
| Black Spade Suit | Black Heart Suit | Black Diamond Suit | Black Club Suit |
| ♠ | ♥ | ♦ | ♣ |
| U+2664 | U+2661 | U+2662 | U+2667 |
| ♤ | ♡ | ♢ | ♧ |
| White Spade Suit | White Heart Suit | White Diamond Suit | White Club Suit |
Playing cards deck
Unicode 6.0 added images for: the 52 cards of the standard French deck, 4 Knights of the Tarot deck, a back of a card, and two for black and white (or red) jokers in the block U+1F0A0–1F0FF. Unicode 7.0 added a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards 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.
| U+1F0A1 | U+1F0B1 | U+1F0C1 | U+1F0D1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🂡 | 🂱 | 🃁 | 🃑 |
| Ace of Spades | Ace of Hearts | Ace of Diamonds | Ace of Clubs |
| U+1F0A2 | U+1F0B2 | U+1F0C2 | U+1F0D2 |
| 🂢 | 🂲 | 🃂 | 🃒 |
| Two of Spades | Two of Hearts | Two of Diamonds | Two of Clubs |
| U+1F0A3 | U+1F0B3 | U+1F0C3 | U+1F0D3 |
| 🂣 | 🂳 | 🃃 | 🃓 |
| Three of Spades | Three of Hearts | Three of Diamonds | Three of Clubs |
| U+1F0A4 | U+1F0B4 | U+1F0C4 | U+1F0D4 |
| 🂤 | 🂴 | 🃄 | 🃔 |
| Four of Spades | Four of Hearts | Four of Diamonds | Four of Clubs |
| U+1F0A5 | U+1F0B5 | U+1F0C5 | U+1F0D5 |
| 🂥 | 🂵 | 🃅 | 🃕 |
| Five of Spades | Five of Hearts | Five of Diamonds | Five of Clubs |
| U+1F0A6 | U+1F0B6 | U+1F0C6 | U+1F0D6 |
| 🂦 | 🂶 | 🃆 | 🃖 |
| Six of Spades | Six of Hearts | Six of Diamonds | Six of Clubs |
| U+1F0A7 | U+1F0B7 | U+1F0C7 | U+1F0D7 |
| 🂧 | 🂷 | 🃇 | 🃗 |
| Seven of Spades | Seven of Hearts | Seven of Diamonds | Seven of Clubs |
| U+1F0A8 | U+1F0B8 | U+1F0C8 | U+1F0D8 |
| 🂨 | 🂸 | 🃈 | 🃘 |
| Eight of Spades | Eight of Hearts | Eight of Diamonds | Eight of Clubs |
| U+1F0A9 | U+1F0B9 | U+1F0C9 | U+1F0D9 |
| 🂩 | 🂹 | 🃉 | 🃙 |
| Nine of Spades | Nine of Hearts | Nine of Diamonds | Nine of Clubs |
| U+1F0AA | U+1F0BA | U+1F0CA | U+1F0DA |
| 🂪 | 🂺 | 🃊 | 🃚 |
| Ten of Spades | Ten of Hearts | Ten of Diamonds | Ten of Clubs |
| U+1F0AB | U+1F0BB | U+1F0CB | U+1F0DB |
| 🂫 | 🂻 | 🃋 | 🃛 |
| Jack of Spades | Jack of Hearts | Jack of Diamonds | Jack of Clubs |
| U+1F0AC | U+1F0BC | U+1F0CC | U+1F0DC |
| 🂬 | 🂼 | 🃌 | 🃜 |
| Knight of Spades | Knight of Hearts | Knight of Diamonds | Knight of Clubs |
| U+1F0AD | U+1F0BD | U+1F0CD | U+1F0DD |
| 🂭 | 🂽 | 🃍 | 🃝 |
| Queen of Spades | Queen of Hearts | Queen of Diamonds | Queen of Clubs |
| U+1F0AE | U+1F0BE | U+1F0CE | U+1F0DE |
| 🂮 | 🂾 | 🃎 | 🃞 |
| King of Spades | King of Hearts | King of Diamonds | King of Clubs |
| U+1F0A0 | U+1F0BF | U+1F0CF | U+1F0DF |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🂠 | 🂿 | 🃏 | 🃟 |
| Playing Card Back | Red Joker | Black Joker | White Joker |
| U+1F0E0 | U+1F0E1 | U+1F0E2 | U+1F0E3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🃠 | 🃡 | 🃢 | 🃣 |
| Fool | Trump-1 (individual) | Trump-2 (childhood) | Trump-3 (youth) |
| U+1F0E4 | U+1F0E5 | U+1F0E6 | U+1F0E7 |
| 🃤 | 🃥 | 🃦 | 🃧 |
| Trump-4 (maturity) | Trump-5 (old age) | Trump-6 (morning) | Trump-7 (afternoon) |
| U+1F0E8 | U+1F0E9 | U+1F0EA | U+1F0EB |
| 🃨 | 🃩 | 🃪 | 🃫 |
| Trump-8 (evening) | Trump-9 (night) | Trump-10 (earth and air) | Trump-11 (water and fire) |
| U+1F0EC | U+1F0ED | U+1F0EE | U+1F0EF |
| 🃬 | 🃭 | 🃮 | 🃯 |
| Trump-12 (dance) | Trump-13 (shopping) | Trump-14 (open air) | Trump-15 (visual arts) |
| U+1F0F0 | U+1F0F1 | U+1F0F2 | U+1F0F3 |
| 🃰 | 🃱 | 🃲 | 🃳 |
| Trump-16 (spring) | Trump-17 (summer) | Trump-18 (autumn) | Trump-19 (winter) |
| U+1F0F4 | U+1F0F5 | ||
| 🃴 | 🃵 | ||
| Trump-20 (the game) | Trump-21 (collective) |
Playing Cards (block)
Emoji
The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF 🃏 PLAYING CARD BLACK JOKER.[3][4]
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Playing Cards block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2/06-288 | Pentzlin, Karl (2006-08-06), Comments on L2/04-163 - Domino tiles and other game symbols | ||||
| L2/09-026R | N3583 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding | |||
| L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | |||
| L2/09-114 | N3607 | Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06 | |||
| L2/10-089 | N3777 | KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 | |||
| L2/10-132 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data | ||||
| 7.0 | U+1F0BF, 1F0E0..1F0F5 | 23 | L2/11-095 | N4012 | Everson, Michael; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-04-01), Proposal to encode additional playing card characters in the UCS |
| L2/11-102 (pdf, txt) | Davis, Mark (2011-04-06), Clarification of Tarot cards | ||||
| L2/11-216 | N4089 | Everson, Michael; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-31), Proposal to disunify playing card and tarot card characters in the UCS | |||
| L2/11-261R2 | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes | ||||
| N4253 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12 | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2020-02-11. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/.
- ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2021-08-26. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt.
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