Clubs (also known as clovers or flowers in some parts of Africa) is one of the four suits found in playing cards.
In bridge, it ranks lowest out of all four suits, below Diamonds. It is typically associated with war.
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. The suits were based on the four major economic classes of the late Middle Ages: spades represented the military, hearts represented the church, clubs represented agriculture and diamonds represented trade merchants.
Analogues in other suits
Meanings in other languages
Сodes of symbol
Unicode — U+2663 and U+2667
- ♣ ♧
HTML — ♣ (or ♣) and ♧
- ♣ ♧
Example cards
The Beatles TV show
On the Beatles TV show, John Lennon is the clubs suit.
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