Summary
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.
| 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: [1][2] | |
Unification edit
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 edit
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
Emoji edit
The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF 🃏 PLAYING CARD BLACK JOKER.[3][4]
History edit
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 | ||||
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