Spades (suit)

Spades or Pique French or English or Spades ( four-color sheet ) is a playing card color in the French Journal: a rotated upside down, black heart with a stem at the bottom. It symbolizes a pike or a halberd, in the German pages, it corresponds foliage or green or shoveling, called in Bavaria grass.

When Skat Spades is the second most valuable, the bridge, the most valuable color.

The card color is in Switzerland Schuufle ( shovel) and in some German regions, eg called in the Rhineland, scoop / shovel ( shovel).

The symbol ♠ is already included in the computer character set CP437 and thus also in the WGL4. In Unicode, a black and a white ♠ ♤ Spades is defined:

Word origin

The name comes from the French pique, which means spit or lance. The word for the mountain peak is not directly related herewith (see Piz ). In a phrase spades is also available for resentment.

Colors Double leaf: Cross ( Trèfle ) | Spades ( Pique ) | Heart ( Coeur ) | Karo ( Carreau )

German Journal: Acorn | Leaf | Heart | Clamps

Card game concept

Suit (cards) Pike (weapon)#Pike and shot Codepage 437 Miscellaneous Symbols Idiom Jack (playing card) Queen (playing card) Hearts (suit) Diamonds (suit)

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