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Joker emoji 🃏

🃏 is the joker: a playing card showing a jester. It is the card emoji — poker nights, card games, “wild card” — and it means a joker: a prankster, the Batman villain, a…

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What the joker 🃏 emoji means

🃏 is the joker: a playing card showing a jester. It is the card emoji — poker nights, card games, “wild card” — and it means a joker: a prankster, the Batman villain, a jester or fool. It is often paired with 🤡 for “clown behaviour”. Original 2010 emoji. Card set: ♠️ spade suit, 🎴 flower playing cards, 🀄 mahjong; the clown 🤡 on the clown guide; theatre 🎭 performing arts.

Unicode name: joker · U+1F0CF · Emoji 0.6 (original set) · group: Activities.

IN A MESSAGEpoker night 🃏♠️ bring cash and low expectations

How people use it

  • Card games: poker, blackjack
  • Wild card: unpredictable people
  • The Joker: Batman, memes
  • Jokers and jesters: pranksters

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
jokerU+1F0CFCard, joker
clown faceU+1F921Clown
spade suitU+2660 U+FE0FSpades
flower playing cardsU+1F3B4Hanafuda
performing artsU+1F3ADMasks

Questions people ask

Is there a playing card emoji?

🃏 joker is the main one, with the suits ♠️ ♥️ ♦️ ♣️.

What does 🃏 mean from a guy?

A card game, or that someone is a wild card or a joker.

Is there a jester emoji?

No; 🃏 joker card shows one.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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