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

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
  • Joker with Fool

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.

Chart
Playing Cards[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F0Ax 🂠 🂡 🂢 🂣 🂤 🂥 🂦 🂧 🂨 🂩 🂪 🂫 🂬 🂭 🂮
U+1F0Bx 🂱 🂲 🂳 🂴 🂵 🂶 🂷 🂸 🂹 🂺 🂻 🂼 🂽 🂾 🂿
U+1F0Cx 🃁 🃂 🃃 🃄 🃅 🃆 🃇 🃈 🃉 🃊 🃋 🃌 🃍 🃎 🃏
U+1F0Dx 🃑 🃒 🃓 🃔 🃕 🃖 🃗 🃘 🃙 🃚 🃛 🃜 🃝 🃞 🃟
U+1F0Ex 🃠 🃡 🃢 🃣 🃤 🃥 🃦 🃧 🃨 🃩 🃪 🃫 🃬 🃭 🃮 🃯
U+1F0Fx 🃰 🃱 🃲 🃳 🃴 🃵
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.0U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF[lower-alpha 2]59L2/04-163N2760Everson, Michael (2004-05-18), Proposal to encode dominoes and other game symbols in the UCS
L2/06-288Pentzlin, Karl (2006-08-06), Comments on L2/04-163 - Domino tiles and other game symbols
L2/09-025R2N3582[lower-alpha 3]Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026RN3583Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2N3681Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/09-114N3607Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06
L2/10-089N3777KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08
L2/10-132Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
7.0U+1F0BF, 1F0E0..1F0F523L2/11-095N4012Everson, 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
L2/11-216N4089Everson, Michael; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-31), Proposal to disunify playing card and tarot card characters in the UCS
L2/11-261R2Moore, 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
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  3. 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.
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