Meld (cards) Meld (cards) In card games, a meld is a set of matching cards, typically three or more, that earn a player points and/or allow him to deplete his hand. Melds typically come in sequences of ascending cards belonging to the same suit known as "runs" () or "sets/groups" of cards of identical rank (). Other ones may be "marriage" (e.g. K and Q) and "bezique" (Q and J). Melding is typical in games of the Rummy family, such as Canasta and Gin. It is also used in other games such as mahjong. Melds are also made in some trick-taking games,
Playing cards in Unicode used in cartomancy but the Tarot Nouveau used in tarot card games. The Playing Cards block contains one emoji: U+1F0CF. The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Playing Cards block: Playing cards in Unicode Unicode is a computing industry standard for the handling of fonts and symbols. Within it is a set of images depicting playing cards, and another depicting the French card suits. The Miscellaneous Symbols block contains the following, at U+2660–2667: Unicode 6.0 added images for: Minor Arcana Tarot, the 52 cards of the standard French deck, 4 Knights, a