playing card

card used as one of a set for playing card games
Thing social_game Q47883
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Summary

playing card draws 19,994 Wikipedia views per month (social game category, ranking #511 of 3).[1]

Key Facts

  • Depicts: value[2], suit[3], face[4], jester[5]
  • Made from material: card stock[6]
  • Subclass of: game equipment[7], printed matter[8], card[9]
  • Part of: card deck[10], hand[11]
  • Has use: card game[12]
  • Commons category: Playing cards[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Playing cards[14]
  • Commons gallery: Playing card[15]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Otto's encyclopedia[18], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[19], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox playing card[22], Template:Playing cards[23], Q25941906[24]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/playing-cards[25]
  • Different from: map[26]
  • Uses: Pip[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28], concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[29]

Why It Matters

playing card has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 96 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  11. [12] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bew', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'bs'
    Sitelink count → 99
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||fy, ka */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 4w ago · A.pavliashvili · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: social game"
  3. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → playing-cards
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151021919
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: playing-cards, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950460|playing cards (#289950460)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  4. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  5. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001601-hraci-karty
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001601-hraci-karty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  6. 18w ago · Arlo Barnes · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses → Pip
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Uses: Pip"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox playing card, Template:Playing cards, Q25941906
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Described by source → Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Otto's encyclopedia +3
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 2222, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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