Diamonds (suit)

For other uses, see diamond (disambiguation).

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Diamonds is one of the four suits found in the "international" deck of playing cards. The standard "international" deck uses the French suit system.

In bridge, it ranks third highest of the four suits, above clubs, but below hearts. In some card games of Germanic origin such as Skat or Sheepshead, the suits rank: clubs, spades, hearts, and diamonds. It is typically associated with wealth or riches.

The symbol was first used on French playing cards, made in Rouen and Lyon in the 15th Century, around the time that playing cards were first mass-produced by the use of woodcuts.

Analogues in other suits

• German suits: jingle bells, small bells (Template:Lang-de)
• Swiss German suits: jingle bells (Template:Lang-de)
• Italo-Spanish (Latin) suits: coins (Template:Lang-it / Template:Lang-es)
• Tarot suits: Tarot cards may be Italo-Spanish or French suited. In occult tarot, the coins suit of the Italian suited tarot is often named "pentacles" or "discs."

Names in other languages and their meanings

• Template:Lang-nl - Rhombuses
• Template:Lang-fa - pronunciation: Khesht, meaning: mud brick
• Template:Lang-fr - squares, cells
• Template:Lang-de or Eckstein - rhombus or cornerstone
• Template:Lang-el (Caro) - square tiling
• Template:Lang-he ("Yahalom") - diamond (always singular), also "Meu'yan" - rhombus (always singular)
• Template:Lang-it - squares
• Template:Lang-mk (Baklava, because of its shape) or Каро (Karo) (from Template:Lang-de / Template:Lang-fr)
• Template:Lang-no - squares
• Template:Lang-pl - transcription from French
• Template:Lang-pt - gold coins
• Template:Lang-ru (Bubny) or Буби (Bubi) (from Template:Lang-ru, бубенчики) - jingle bells
• Template:Lang-es - squares
• Template:Lang-tr - squares, cells
• Template:Lang-se - squares
• Template:Lang-id - Tofu or Wajik - Sticky Rice Cake

Сodes of symbol

Unicode —U+2666 and U+2662:

♦ ♢

HTML — ♦ (or ♦) and ♢:

♦ ♢

Example cards

Ace	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10
Jack	Queen	King