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The following is a list of nicknames used for individual playing cards of the French-suited standard 52-card pack.Sometimes games require the revealing or announcement of cards, at which point appropriate nicknames may be used if allowed under the rules or local game culture.
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).
The link between the deuce and the sow is evinced by Johann Leonhard Frisch in his 1741 German–Latin dictionary: "Sow in card game, from the figure of a sow, which is painted on the Deuce of Acorns, whence the other deuces are also called Sows." [9] How the boar ended up on the playing card is unknown.
Male and female sign ⚥ U+26A5 ⚥ Male or Female heterosexuality, Hermaphrodite (in entomology) Male with stroke sign ⚦ U+26A6 ⚦ Transgender: Male with stroke and male and female sign Transgender symbol (Emoji 13.0) [4] ⚧: U+26A7 ⚧ Transgender: Vertical male with stroke sign ⚨ U+26A8 ⚨ Iron(II) sulfate [5 ...
In many games, ordinary cards may be designated as wild, for example, the J♣ and 9♦ in Classic Brag or the "deuces wild" in Poker. [3] A card that is not wild may be referred to as a natural card. [4] In some cases, the wild card or cards must be agreed upon by players before the cards are dealt and play commences.
Deuces or Twos is a patience or card solitaire game of English origin which is played with two packs of playing cards. It is so called because each foundation starts with a Deuce, or Two. It belongs to a family of card games that includes Busy Aces, which is derived in turn from Napoleon at St Helena (aka Forty Thieves).
The following is a list of nicknames for pairs of two playing cards, usually hole cards, used in poker derivatives such as Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold 'em poker. These nicknames are usually used by the player when announcing their hand or by spectators or commentators who are watching the game.
The Egyptian Hieroglyphs Unicode block has 94 standardized variants defined to specify rotated signs: [3] [4]. Variation selector-1 (VS1) (U+FE00) can be used to rotate 40 signs by 90°: