Playing Cards (Unicode block)

Playing Cards
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)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note:

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 face cards plus a Knight for all four suits), three jokers, The Fool tarot card, 21 trump cards from the Tarot Nouveau, and a backside.

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

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 16.0 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
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ^ Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents ^ Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621