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Playing cards in Unicode

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Plane
  
SMP

Assigned
  
82 code points

Scripts
  
Common

6.0
  
59 (+59)

Range
  
U+1F0A0..U+1F0FF (96 code points)

Unused
  
14 reserved code points

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.

Contents

Card suits

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

Playing cards deck

Unicode 6.0 added images for: Minor Arcana Tarot, the 52 cards of the standard French deck, 4 Knights, 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 Major Arcana used in cartomancy but the Tarot Nouveau used in tarot card games.

Block

The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF.

References

Playing cards in Unicode Wikipedia