Diamond (color)

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A king of diamonds

Karo -  French : Carreau ; english : diamonds ; ♦or ♦( four-color sheet ) - is one of the four game colors in the French playing card sheet .

In the German newspaper it corresponds to Schellen Bay schellen.svg .

In older game descriptions, diamonds are often referred to as "corner stones". In Switzerland the color is still called "Egge" ( corner ). The term "Karo" came into the German language in the 18th century via the French carreau and goes back to the Latin quadrum "Viereck, Quadrat".

Character encoding

The ♦ character is already included in the CP437 and thus also in the WGL4 . In Unicode a black ♦ and a white ♢ diamond are defined:

character Unicode Entity in HTML
♦ U + 2666 BLACK DIAMOND SUIT ♦ or ♦
♢ U + 2662 WHITE DIAMOND SUIT ♢

Web links

Commons : Karo (symbol)  - collection of images, videos, and audio files
Commons : Karo (color)  - collection of images, videos, and audio files
Wiktionary: Karo  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer: Etymological Dictionary of German. 8th edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-32511-9 .