Editing Face card (section)

==Cards==
[[Image:Playingcourts.gif|thumb|upright|Face cards from the [[Tarot Nouveau]]]]

Current playing cards are structured as follows:

*[[German playing cards|German]] and [[Swiss playing cards]] have three male face cards per suit, ''[[Unter (playing card)|Unter/Under]]'' (a lower-class man or soldier), ''[[Ober (playing card)|Ober]]'' (a higher ranking man), and ''König'' (a seated [[King (playing card)|King]]).
*[[Italian playing cards|Italian]] and [[Spanish playing cards]] have the ''Fante'' or ''Sota'' ([[Jack (playing card)|Knave]], a younger man standing), ''Cavallo'' or ''Caballo'' ([[Knight (playing card)|Knight]] or Cavalier, a man sitting on a horse) and ''Re'' or ''Rey'' (King, wearing a crown). Italian suited kings are seated while Spanish suited kings stand. A few Spanish suited patterns and [[Portuguese-suited playing cards|Portuguese suited patterns]] replace male knaves with female counterparts. The specific [[Karuta#Unsun karuta|Unsun karuta]] deck has three additional ranks: the ''"Un"'', the ''"Sun"'', and the ''Dragon''.
*[[French playing cards]] replaced the middle male with the [[Queen (playing card)|Queen]] so it became Knave or "Jack", Queen, and King. French suited Kings stand.
*French and Latin [[tarot]] decks have four face cards per suit. Their order is Knave, Knight, Queen, and King for a total of 16 face cards. Figures appearing on tarot [[trump (card games)|trump]]s are not considered to be face cards.
*[[Ganjifa]] playing cards have two face cards per suit: the king and the [[Vizier#Playing card rank|vizier]].

While modern decks of playing cards may contain one or more [[Joker (Playing Card)|Jokers]] depicting a person, such as a [[jester]] or [[clown]], they are not normally considered face cards. The earliest Jokers, known as Best Bowers, did not depict people until the late 1860s.