In playing cards, a suit is one of several categories into which the cards of a deck are divided. Most often, each card bears one of several symbols showing to which suit it belongs; the suit may alternatively or in addition be indicated by the color printed on the card. Most card decks also have a rank for each card and may include special cards in the deck that belong to no suit, often called jokers.
The four suits in the standard French deck—also used in most English-speaking countries—are spades or piques (), hearts or couers (), clubs or trèfles (), and diamonds or carreaux ().
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