Diamonds

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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 popularly associated with wealth or riches; in cartomancy, it relates more generally to material possessions and physical well-being.

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 (German: Schellen)
• Swiss German suits: jingle bells (German: Schellen)
• Italo-Spanish (Latin) suits: coins (Italian: Denari, Ori / Spanish: Oros)
• 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

• Dutch: Ruiten - Rhombuses (In Flanders they are sometimes called Koeken: Cookies)
• Czech: Kára
• Finnish: Ruutu - squares, tile
• French: Carreau - squares, cells
• German: Karo or Eckstein - rhombus or cornerstone
• Greek: Καρό (Caro) - square tiling
• Hebrew: יהלום‎ ("Yahalom") - diamond (always singular), also "Meu'yan" - rhombus (always singular)
• Icelandic: Tigull - tile, floor tile
• Indonesian: Tahu - Tofu or Wajik - Rice cake
• Italian: Quadri - squares
• Lithuanian: Būgnai - drums
• Macedonian: Баклава (Baklava, because of its shape) or Каро (Karo) (from German: Karo / French: Carreau)
• Hungarian: káró
• Northern Sami: Ruter - squares
• Norwegian: Ruter - squares (always plural)
• Persian: خشت - pronunciation: Khesht, meaning: mud brick
• Polish: Karo - transcription from French, or Dzwonek - bell
• Portuguese: Ouros - gold coins
• Romanian: Caro or Romb
• Russian: Бубны (Bubny) or Буби (Bubi) (from Russian: бубенцы, бубенчики) - jingle bells
• Spanish: Diamantes - diamonds
• Swedish: Ruter - squares
• Turkish: Karo - squares, cells
• Thai: ข้าวหลามตัด - Rhombus quadrilateral in thai language
• Ukrainian: бубна (bubna) (from Russian: бубна) or Ukrainian: дзвінка (from Ukrainian: дзвін) - jingle bell

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