In a deck of playing cards, the term face card or court card, and sometimes royalty, is generally used to describe a card that depicts a person as opposed to the pip cards. In a standard 52-card pack
The jack, queen and king of spades: three court cards (face cards) from an English pattern pack
Persian Ganjifeh courts with an ace
King, Ober, and Under of Acorns from a Swiss deck (1880)
Emperor Tenji on a yomifuda
The Unter, formerly Untermann, nicknamed the Wenzel, Wenz or Bauer, and also called the Under, is the court card in German and Swiss-suited playing cards that corresponds to the Jack in French packs.
The four Unters in a German pack of cards (Bavarian pattern, Stralsund type)
An Under of Acorns in a Swiss German pack, c. 1850, with the acorn near the bottom