Playing Cards (Unicode block)
| 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 | 59 (+59) |
| 7.0 | 82 (+23) |
| 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:
- 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
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[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2/06-288 | Pentzlin, Karl (2006-08-06), Comments on L2/04-163 - Domino tiles and other game 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), UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes | ||||
| N4253 (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12 | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2020-02-11. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/.
- ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2021-08-26. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt.
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