Playing cards in Unicode
| 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) |
| 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 |
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