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Clubs is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard 
.
Its original
The symbol for the suit of Clubs depicts a very stylised three-leaf clover with its stalk oriented downwards.
Generally the suit of Clubs is
File:01 of clubs A.svg, Ace
File:02 of clubs.svg, 2
File:03 of clubs.svg, 3
File:04 of clubs.svg, 4
File:05 of clubs.svg, 5
File:06 of clubs.svg, 6
File:07 of clubs.svg, 7
File:08 of clubs.svg, 8
File:09 of clubs.svg, 9
File:10 of clubs - David Bellot.svg, 10
File:Jack of clubs fr.svg, Jack
File:Queen of clubs fr.svg,
Four-colour packs are sometimes used in tournaments or online. In four-colour packs, clubs may be:
* green 
in American Bridge and Poker,''Four-Color Deck''
at pokernews.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020. English Poker, French and Swiss four-colour decks,
at a_pollett.tripod.com. Retrieved 4 Aug 2020. * black in German Skat packs,
* blue 
in English Bridge and some American packs or
* pink 
in some other four-colour packs.
Clubs is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard French deck
French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. I ...
. It corresponds to the suit of Acorns in a German deck .
Its original French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
name is Trèfle which means "clover
Clover or trefoil are common names for plants of the genus ''Trifolium'' (from Latin ''tres'' 'three' + ''folium'' 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume or pea family Fabaceae originating in Europe. The genus ...
" and the card symbol depicts a three-leafed clover leaf. The Italian name is Fiori ("flower"). The English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ...
name "Clubs" is derived from the suit of ''Bastoni'' (batons) in Italian-Spanish suited cards.
In Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...
, this suit is known as Kreuz ("cross"), especially in the International Skat Regulations. In Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
, by contrast, it is almost exclusively called Treff, a reference to the French name, especially in the game of Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually someth ...
, where French names generally predominate, for example ''Cœur'' is used instead of ''Herz''.
In Skat and Doppelkopf, Clubs are the highest-ranked suit (whereas Diamonds
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, ...
/Bells
Bells may refer to:
* Bell, a musical instrument
Places
* Bells, North Carolina
* Bells, Tennessee
* Bells, Texas
* Bells Beach, Victoria, an internationally famous surf beach in Australia
* Bells Corners, Ontario
Music
* Bells, directly st ...
are the trump suit in Doppelkopf). In Bridge, Clubs are the lowest suit.
Characteristics
The symbol for the suit of Clubs depicts a very stylised three-leaf clover with its stalk oriented downwards.
Generally the suit of Clubs is black
Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white ha ...
in colour. However, the suit may also be green, for example as sometimes used in Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually someth ...
(where it is one of the two minor suits, along with Diamonds
Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, ...
).
The gallery below shows a suit of Clubs from a French suited deck of 52 cards. Not shown is the Knight of Clubs used in tarot card games
Tarot games are card games played with tarot decks, that is, decks with numbered permanent trumps parallel to the suit cards. The games and decks which English-speakers call by the French name Tarot are called Tarocchi in the original Italian, ...
:
Queen
Queen or QUEEN may refer to:
Monarchy
* Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom
** List of queens regnant
* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen dowager, the widow of a king
* Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother ...
File:King of clubs fr.svg, King
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen regnant, queen, which title is also given to the queen consort, consort of a king.
*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contempora ...
Four-colour packs
Four-colour packs are sometimes used in tournaments or online. In four-colour packs, clubs may be:
* green in American Bridge and Poker,at pokernews.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020. English Poker, French and Swiss four-colour decks,
at a_pollett.tripod.com. Retrieved 4 Aug 2020. * black
in German Skat packs,
* blue in English Bridge and some American packs or
* pink in some other four-colour packs.
Coding
The symbol ♣ is already in theCP437
Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer). It is also known as CP437, OEM-US, OEM 437, PC-8, or DOS Latin US. The set includes all printable ASCII characters as well as some accented letters (diacri ...
and thus also part of Windows WGL4
Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short, also known as the ''Pan-European character set'', is a character repertoire on Microsoft operating systems comprising 657 Unicode characters, two of them private use. Its purpose is to provide ...
. In Unicode
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a black ♣ and a white ♧ Club symbol are defined:
References
Literature
* * {{Playing card Card suits