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playing card back

Playing Card Back

🂠 represents the back of a face-down playing card; it identifies no specific rank or suit. In a message, it can suggest suspense or an unrevealed detail, but the surrounding words have to establish that reading.

Text symbol
Search it as
card back · hidden card · playing card symbol · patterned playing cards · unrevealed card
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 🂠 means

Patterns helped conceal identifying marks and wear.

For the first several centuries of card use in Europe, backs were often plain or simply coloured. Patterns made identifying marks and wear harder to spot, then became part of a deck's visual identity. The glyph is schematic and font-dependent; it does not reproduce any real deck.

If you're asking whether this is a tarot symbol, context matters: the glyph supplies only a generic card back. Tarot began as a card game; its earliest references date to the 1440s and 1450s, while its occult and fortune-telling association gained currency in the 19th century.

Don't confuse it with

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🂡
Playing Card Ace Of Spades
shares “card”, “playing”
🂢
Playing Card Two Of Spades
shares “card”, “playing”
🂣
Playing Card Three Of Spades
shares “card”, “playing”
🂤
Playing Card Four Of Spades
shares “card”, “playing”

Combination ideas

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Designed prompt: ask which card is hidden.

Questions people ask

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Why does 🂠 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 🂠

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F0A0, then Alt+X to get 🂠.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “playing card back”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f0a0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🂠
CSS
\1F0A0
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🂠
HTML hex
🂠
CSS content
content: "\1F0A0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%82%A0
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Sport & games420 symbols

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