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Unicode 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 suit), three for jokers (red, black, and white), and a back of a card, in block Playing Cards (U+1F0A0–1F0FF). Also, a specific fool and twenty-one generic trump cards
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.
The four French-suited playing cards suits used in the English-speaking world: diamonds (♦), clubs (♣), hearts (♥) and spades (♠) Traditional Spanish suits – clubs, swords, cups and coins – are found in Hispanic America, Italy and parts of France as well as Spain
Its original French name is Trèfle which means "clover" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf.The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). However, the English name "Clubs" is a translation of basto, the Spanish name for the suit of batons suggesting that Spanish-suited cards were used in England before French suits were invented.
The word "Spade" is probably derived from the Old Spanish spado meaning "sword" and suggests that Spanish suits were used in England before French suits. [2] The French name for this suit, Pique ("pike"), meant, in the 14th century, a weapon formed by an iron spike placed at the end of a pike. [3] In German it is known as Pik.
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The usual rule of play in Tarot card games is that a player who cannot follow suit, must play a trump. Due primarily to the prevalence of the trump in card games, the term used in Japan for the standard 52-card deck of playing cards is toranpu (トランプ), derived from the English word "trump". [11]