Mahjong Tiles (Unicode block)

Mahjong Tiles
Range	U+1F000..U+1F02F (48 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Common
Symbol sets	Mahjong tile symbols
Assigned	44 code points
Unused	4 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1 (2008)	44 (+44)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Mahjong Tiles is a Unicode block containing characters depicting the standard set of tiles used in the game of Mahjong.

Block

Mahjong Tiles^[1]^[2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+1F00x

🀀

🀁

🀂

🀃

🀄

🀅

🀆

🀇

🀈

🀉

🀊

🀋

🀌

🀍

🀎

🀏

U+1F01x

🀐

🀑

🀒

🀓

🀔

🀕

🀖

🀗

🀘

🀙

🀚

🀛

🀜

🀝

🀞

🀟

U+1F02x

🀠

🀡

🀢

🀣

🀤

🀥

🀦

🀧

🀨

🀩

🀪

🀫

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Mahjong Tiles block contains one emoji: U+1F004.[3][4]

It defaults to an emoji presentation and has two standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15).[5]

Emoji variation sequences

U+	1F004
base code point	🀄
base+VS15 (text)	🀄︎
base+VS16 (emoji)	🀄️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Mahjong Tiles block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.1	U+1F000..1F02B	44	L2/05-256	N2975	Proposal to add Mahjong symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2005-08-22
				N2953 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
			L2/06-088		"7.4.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, 2006-02-22
				N3103 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.8.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
			L2/06-306	N3147	Everson, Michael (2006-09-12), Proposal to encode Mahjong, Domino, and Draughts symbols in the UCS
				N3162	Proposal to add Mahjong symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2006-09-23
			L2/07-171	N3171	Chen, Zhuang; Everson, Michael; Lu, Qin; Sekiguchi, Masuhiro; Shih-Shyeng, Tseng; Wei, Lin-Mei; West, Andrew (2006-09-27), Proposal to encode Mahjong, Domino, and Draughts symbols in the UCS
				N3153 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.4c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27, Correcting the glyphs for 4 Mahjong Tiles and annotating the name for another Tile.
			L2/11-438[b][c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
4. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
5. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.

External links

• Test for Unicode support in Web browsers: Mahjong Tiles