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Diamonds 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 third highest of the four suits, above clubs, but below hearts. In some card games of Germanic origin such as Skat or Sheepshead, the suits rank: clubs, spades, hearts, and diamonds. It is typically associated with wealth or riches.

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.

Analogues in other suits

German suits: jingle bells, small bells (German: Schellen)
Swiss German suits: jingle bells (German: Schellen)
Italo-Spanish (Latin) suits: coins (Italian: Denari, Ori / Spanish: Oros)
Tarot suits: Tarot cards may be Italo-Spanish or French suited. In occult tarot, the coins suit of the Italian suited tarot is often named "pentacles" or "discs."

Names in other languages and their meanings

Dutch: Ruiten - Rhombuses
Czech: Kára
French: Carreau - squares, cells
German: Karo or Eckstein - rhombus or cornerstone
Greek: Καρό (Caro) - square tiling
Hebrew: יהלום ("Yahalom") - diamond (always singular), also "Meu'yan" - rhombus (always singular)
Icelandic: Tigull - tile, floor tile
Indonesian: Tahu - Tofu or Wajik - Rice cake
Italian: Quadri - squares
Lithuanian: Būgnai - drums
Macedonian: Баклава (Baklava, because of its shape) or Каро (Karo) (from German: Karo / French: Carreau)
Hungarian: káró
Northern Sami: Ruter - squares
Norwegian: Ruter - squares (always plural)
Persian: خشت - pronunciation: Khesht, meaning: mud brick
Polish: Karo - transcription from French
Portuguese: Ouros - gold coins
[Бубны] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help) (Bubny) or Буби (Bubi) (from Russian: бубенцы, бубенчики) - jingle bells
Spanish: Cuadrados - squares
Turkish: Karo - squares, cells
[бубна] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help) (bubna) (from Russian: бубна) or [дзвінка] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help) (from Ukrainian: дзвін) - jingle bell

Сodes of symbol

Unicode —U+2666 and U+2662:

♦ ♢

HTML — ♦ (or &diams;) and ♢:

♦ ♢

Example cards

Ace (ChangeStag)	2 (BulletArmadillo)	3 (UpperFrog)	4 (RapidBird)	5 (DropCrocodile)

6 (FireFly)	7 (None)	8 (ScopeBat)	9 (GeminiShark)	10 (None)

Jack (FusionCrab)	Queen (None)	King (None)

Combo

Burning Shot(♦2+♦4+♦6) AP:2600
Burning Smash(♦5+♦6) AP:2700
Burning Divide(♦5+♦6+♦9) AP:2800

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+* Burning Divide({{Diamonds}}5+{{Diamonds}}6+{{Diamonds}}9) AP:2800
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