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Hearts (♥) 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 second highest of the four suits, below Spades, but above Diamonds. 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 love or romance; in cartomancy, it is more generally linked to love, emotion or spirituality.
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.
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Analogues in other suits
- German suits: hearts (German: Herz)
- Swiss German suits: roses (German: Rosen)
- Italo-Spanish (Latin) suits: suit of cups (Italian: Coppe / Spanish: Copas)
- Tarot suits: Tarot cards may be Italo-Spanish or French suited.
Meanings in other languages
- Armenian: սիրտեր (sirter) - hearts
- Czech: Srdce
- Dutch: Harten - hearts
- Finnish: Hertta - heart
- French: Cœur - heart
- Danish: Hjerter - hearts (always plural)
- German: Herz - hearts
- Greek: Κούπες (Coupes) - cups
- Hebrew: לב ("Lev") - heart (always singular)
- Indonesian: Hati - Love
- Italian: Cuori - hearts
- Lithuanian: Širdys - hearts
- Macedonian: Срце (Srtse) - heart (always singular)
- Hungarian: kőr
- Norwegian: Hjerter - hearts (always plural)
- Polish: Kier - transcription from French, or Serce - heart, or Czerwień - redness, red color
- Portuguese: Copas - cups
- Romanian: Roşu - red or inimă - hearts
- Russian: Черви (Chervy) (from Russian: червонный - red (different hues) or gold)
- Spanish: Corazones - hearts
- Thai: โพธิ์แดง - RedBodhi leafs
- Turkish: kupa - cups (originally cup only)
Сodes of symbol
Unicode — U+2665 and U+2661:
- ♥ ♡
HTML — ♥ (or ♥) and ♡:
- ♥ ♡
Example cards
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