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]

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.

Unification

Unicode unifies several ranks that may be considered different by some players:

It also unifies the various suits, using the English names for the French pattern:

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)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
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:

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
  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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