Joker Emoji

Activities

A playing card featuring a colorful, stylized illustration of a jester wearing a traditional pointed cap with bells. It represents the joker card commonly found in standard 52-card decks.

Usage Context

Used to discuss card games like poker or rummy, or as a way to imply a 'wildcard' situation where the rules are unpredictable. It is frequently sent when playing games alongside the ♠️ or ♦️ emojis to denote a hand or a specific winning move.

History

While playing cards have existed for centuries, this specific icon was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. It draws inspiration from the 19th-century American invention of the joker card, which was initially introduced as a trump card in the game Euchre before becoming a versatile wildcard in modern gaming.

Details

Glyph

🃏

Unicode

U+1F0CF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f0cf:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDCCF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Activities

Subcategory game

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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