This association with the older suit of Swords meant that the suit of Spades was also associated with nobility and military. The modern symbol for the Spade, “♠”, came from the French iteration of the Sword suit, which represented the head of a pike. The suit of swords then came to be represented in the German-speaking world during the 15th century as Shields, and in the French-speaking world as Pikes, also known as Spades. The Latin suits, which came to be the modern French suits, were based on a mixture of currencies (Cups and Coins), and weaponry which represented the nobility and the military (Clubs and Swords). The notion of a playing card game with suits is said to have come about around the 14th century as a “Saracen’s game”.
Just how did this ubiquitous symbol from a pack of playing cards make its way into popular culture? For example, the “♠” symbol – also known as the spade or pike - requires context to understand its meaning. However, there are some symbols that seem to have an ambiguous meaning with multiple interpretations. For example, in Chinese money cards the ranking order from high to low is definitely: tens, myriads, strings, cash.In modern society, signage throughout the world is littered with easily recognisable symbols that represent clear purposes - the “☢” symbol represents radioactivity, and the “☣” symbol unequivocally represents biohazards, both without any need for context. The question is a bit easier for other suit systems. The answer to the question “How are the cards within a suit ranked?” is similar. In a way, a more interesting question would be to ask how many of the 24 possible different suit ranking orders occur in some card game. But some people do play with suits ranked as a house rule and several different rankings are used. In that case, the correct answer (for the official casino / tournament game) is that in poker all the suits are equal, and that when such a tie occurs you split the pot. People sometimes ask this question about ranking of suits because they want to decide which of two royal flushes is higher in poker.
Spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs: Contract Bridge Spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds: Big Two (Choi Dai Di, Da Lao Er)ĭiamonds, hearts, spades, clubs: Pusoy DosĬlubs, hearts, spades, diamonds: Ninety-nine Hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades: Preference, 500, TysiachaĬlubs, spades, hearts, diamonds: Skat, Doppelkopf, Sheepshead Here are a few off the top of my head (rank from high to low in each case): The longer answer would be a list of the different ways that the suits are ranked in different games. The short answer is: “it depends what game you are playing”. I will assume for the moment that we are talking about French suits (hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades). John McLeod supplied the following answer:
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