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.

Playing Cards
RangeU+1F0A0..U+1F0FF
(96 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned82 code points
Unused14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.059 (+59)
7.082 (+23)
Note: [1][2]

Card suits

The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the following, at U+2660–2667:

U+2660U+2665U+2666U+2663
♠♥♦♣
Black Spade SuitBlack Heart SuitBlack Diamond SuitBlack Club Suit
♠♥♦♣
U+2664U+2661U+2662U+2667
♤♡♢♧
White Spade SuitWhite Heart SuitWhite Diamond SuitWhite 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+1F0A1U+1F0B1U+1F0C1U+1F0D1
🂡🂱🃁🃑
Ace of SpadesAce of HeartsAce of DiamondsAce of Clubs
U+1F0A2U+1F0B2U+1F0C2U+1F0D2
🂢🂲🃂🃒
Two of SpadesTwo of HeartsTwo of DiamondsTwo of Clubs
U+1F0A3U+1F0B3U+1F0C3U+1F0D3
🂣🂳🃃🃓
Three of SpadesThree of HeartsThree of DiamondsThree of Clubs
U+1F0A4U+1F0B4U+1F0C4U+1F0D4
🂤🂴🃄🃔
Four of SpadesFour of HeartsFour of DiamondsFour of Clubs
U+1F0A5U+1F0B5U+1F0C5U+1F0D5
🂥🂵🃅🃕
Five of SpadesFive of HeartsFive of DiamondsFive of Clubs
U+1F0A6U+1F0B6U+1F0C6U+1F0D6
🂦🂶🃆🃖
Six of SpadesSix of HeartsSix of DiamondsSix of Clubs
U+1F0A7U+1F0B7U+1F0C7U+1F0D7
🂧🂷🃇🃗
Seven of SpadesSeven of HeartsSeven of DiamondsSeven of Clubs
U+1F0A8U+1F0B8U+1F0C8U+1F0D8
🂨🂸🃈🃘
Eight of SpadesEight of HeartsEight of DiamondsEight of Clubs
U+1F0A9U+1F0B9U+1F0C9U+1F0D9
🂩🂹🃉🃙
Nine of SpadesNine of HeartsNine of DiamondsNine of Clubs
U+1F0AAU+1F0BAU+1F0CAU+1F0DA
🂪🂺🃊🃚
Ten of SpadesTen of HeartsTen of DiamondsTen of Clubs
U+1F0ABU+1F0BBU+1F0CBU+1F0DB
🂫🂻🃋🃛
Jack of SpadesJack of HeartsJack of DiamondsJack of Clubs
U+1F0ACU+1F0BCU+1F0CCU+1F0DC
🂬🂼🃌🃜
Knight of SpadesKnight of HeartsKnight of DiamondsKnight of Clubs
U+1F0ADU+1F0BDU+1F0CDU+1F0DD
🂭🂽🃍🃝
Queen of SpadesQueen of HeartsQueen of DiamondsQueen of Clubs
U+1F0AEU+1F0BEU+1F0CEU+1F0DE
🂮🂾🃎🃞
King of SpadesKing of HeartsKing of DiamondsKing of Clubs
U+1F0A0 U+1F0BF U+1F0CF U+1F0DF
🂠 🂿 🃏 🃟
Playing Card Back Red Joker Black Joker White Joker
U+1F0E0U+1F0E1U+1F0E2U+1F0E3
🃠🃡🃢🃣
FoolTrump-1 (individual)Trump-2 (childhood)Trump-3 (youth)
U+1F0E4U+1F0E5U+1F0E6U+1F0E7
🃤🃥🃦🃧
Trump-4 (maturity)Trump-5 (old age)Trump-6 (morning)Trump-7 (afternoon)
U+1F0E8U+1F0E9U+1F0EAU+1F0EB
🃨🃩🃪🃫
Trump-8 (evening)Trump-9 (night)Trump-10 (earth and air)Trump-11 (water and fire)
U+1F0ECU+1F0EDU+1F0EEU+1F0EF
🃬🃭🃮🃯
Trump-12 (dance)Trump-13 (shopping)Trump-14 (open air)Trump-15 (visual arts)
U+1F0F0U+1F0F1U+1F0F2U+1F0F3
🃰🃱🃲🃳
Trump-16 (spring)Trump-17 (summer)Trump-18 (autumn)Trump-19 (winter)
U+1F0F4U+1F0F5
🃴🃵
Trump-20 (the game)Trump-21 (collective)

Block
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 13.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF.[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 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2020-02-11.
  4. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2020-01-28.
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