Playing Cards (Unicode block)

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]

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.

## Contents

* 1 Unification
* 2 Chart
* 2.1 Emoji
* 3 History
* 4 References

## 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

### 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

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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

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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## References

1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2020-02-11. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/.
4. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2021-08-26. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt.

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