Playing cards in Unicode
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
[edit]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
[edit]Unicode 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 suit), three for jokers (red, black, and white), and a back of a card, in block Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). Also, a specific fool and twenty-one generic trump cards are added. The depiction of these trump cards in most supporting fonts is based on the Bourgeois 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) |
Tarot
[edit]Four Knights of the Tarot deck are in block Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). A specific white joker, a fool, and twenty-one generic trump cards were added to the Playing Cards block in Unicode 7.0 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
[edit]| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
Emoji
[edit]The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF 🃏 PLAYING CARD BLACK JOKER.[1][2]
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.[3]
There is an emoji for Japanese hanafuda (flower playing cards): U+1F3B4 🎴 FLOWER PLAYING CARDS. The emoji can stand for any hanafuda card but it is usually depicted as the Moon card specifically.
References
[edit]- ^ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
- ^ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
- ^ "Emoji Presentation Sequences". unicode.org. Unicode, Inc. Retrieved 13 September 2022.