For this reason every card in the deck has a different number to prevent ties. A further strategic element is introduced since one suit contains mostly low-ranking cards and another, mostly high-ranking cards.

Any one of these four classifications could be considered a suit , but this is not really enlightening in terms of the structure of the game.

In computer and other digital media , suit symbols can be represented with character encoding , notably in the ISO and Unicode standards, or with Web standard SGML 's named entity syntax :.

Unicode is the most frequently used encoding standard, and suits are in the Miscellaneous Symbols Block —26FF of the Unicode. In some card games the card suits have a dominance order, for example: club lowest - diamond - heart - spade highest.

That led to in spades being used to mean more than expected, in abundance, very much. In European games, the order is often different: diamond or bell lowest - heart - spade or leaf - club or acorn highest.

See, for example, the game of Bruus. Other expressions drawn from bridge and similar games include strong suit any area of personal strength and to follow suit to imitate another's actions.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Suit cards. Categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. For the similar typographical element, see Lozenge.

Main article: German playing cards. See also: Four-color deck. Hearts card game Spades card game Stripped deck.

The suit system may have originated in Catalonia and spread out through the western Mediterranean before being replaced by the "Spanish" system.

The association with Portugal comes from the fact that they continued to use it until completely going over to French suits at the beginning of the 20th century.

However, when comparing only the pips, it is Germanic. Cards combining the two suit systems are manufactured in different versions with different combinations of suits.

Clubs are also known as clovers, flowers and crosses. The English term spade originally did not refer to the tool but was derived from the Spanish word espada meaning sword from the Spanish suit.

Those symbols were later changed to resemble the digging tool instead to avoid confusion. In German and Dutch the suit is alternatively named Schippen and schoppen respectively, meaning shovels.

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