Playing cards in Unicode

The Miscellaneous Symbols block (U+2600–26FF) contains code points for eight suit characters:

Note: Unicode uses the terms "black" and "white" to mean solid or outlined, with the actual color left to the user. For example, U+2660 ♠ BLACK SPADE SUIT and U+2665 ♥ BLACK HEART SUIT can be displayed as ♠ and ♥, as ♠ and ♥ or even as ♠ and ♥.

It is recommended to use stylistic fonts for regional variations of the French suits.^[1]

Unicode's Playing Cards block (U+1F0A0–1F0FF) has code points for the 52 cards of the standard French deck plus the Knight (Ace, 2–10, Jack, Knight, Queen, and King for each of the four suits), three jokers (red, black, and white), the back of a card, The Fool, and generic trump cards numbered 1–21. The depiction of these trump cards in most supporting fonts is based on the Bourgeois Tarot.

Four Knights of the Tarot deck were included when the Playing Cards Unicode block was added in Unicode 6.0 (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). In Unicode 7.0, a red joker, a fool, and twenty-one generic trump cards were added to the Playing Cards block, with the reference description being not the Italian-suited Tarot de Marseille or its derivatives (which are often used in cartomancy) but the French Tarot Nouveau used to play Jeu de tarot, which is used for divination less frequently.

There is an emoji for Japanese hanafuda (flower playing cards): U+1F3B4 🎴 FLOWER PLAYING CARDS. The emoji can stand for any hanafuda card but it is usually depicted as the Moon card specifically.

There are standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for various playing card characters:^[2][3][4]