Playing Cards (Unicode 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 (2010)	59 (+59)
7.0 (2014)	82 (+23)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Graphical representation of the 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 face cards plus a Knight for all four suits), three jokers, The Fool tarot card, 21 trump cards from the Tarot Nouveau, and a backside.

Unification

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

Playing Cards [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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U+1F0Ax

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🂤

🂥

🂦

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🂪

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🂬

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U+1F0Bx

🂱

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U+1F0Cx

🃁

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🃋

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U+1F0Dx

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🃘

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🃝

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U+1F0Ex

🃠

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🃣

🃤

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🃦

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🃪

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U+1F0Fx

🃰

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🃴

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Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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 [a]	Count	L2  ID	WG2  ID	Document
6.0	U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF [b]	59	L2/04-163	N2760	Everson, Michael (2004-05-18), Proposal to encode dominoes and other game symbols in the UCS
			L2/06-288		Pentzlin, Karl (2006-08-06), Comments on L2/04-163 - Domino tiles and other game symbols
			L2/09-025R2	N3582 [c]	Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji 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), "Motion 128-M2", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
				N4253 (pdf, doc)	"M59.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621

References

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.