# 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 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.

## Chart

Playing Cards 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.

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Playing Cards block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | L2/04-163 | N2760 | Everson, Michael (2004-05-18), Proposal to encode dominoes and other game symbols in the UCS |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | L2/06-288 | | Pentzlin, Karl (2006-08-06), Comments on L2/04-163 - Domino tiles and other game symbols |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | L2/09-025R2 | N3582 | Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | 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 |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | L2/09-027R2 | N3681 | Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | L2/09-114 | N3607 | Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06 |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | L2/10-089 | N3777 | KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08 |
| 6.0 | U+1F0A0..1F0AE, 1F0B1..1F0BE, 1F0C1..1F0CF, 1F0D1..1F0DF | 59 | 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 |
| 7.0 | U+1F0BF, 1F0E0..1F0F5 | 23 | L2/11-102 (pdf, txt) | | Davis, Mark (2011-04-06), Clarification of Tarot cards |
| 7.0 | U+1F0BF, 1F0E0..1F0F5 | 23 | L2/11-216 | N4089 | Everson, Michael; Pentzlin, Karl (2011-05-31), Proposal to disunify playing card and tarot card characters in the UCS |
| 7.0 | U+1F0BF, 1F0E0..1F0F5 | 23 | L2/11-261R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Motion 128-M2", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes |
| 7.0 | U+1F0BF, 1F0E0..1F0F5 | 23 | | 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 ||||||