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 44 (+44)
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)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F00x 🀀 🀁 🀂 🀃 🀄 🀅 🀆 🀇 🀈 🀉 🀊 🀋 🀌 🀍 🀎 🀏
U+1F01x 🀐 🀑 🀒 🀓 🀔 🀕 🀖 🀗 🀘 🀙 🀚 🀛 🀜 🀝 🀞 🀟
U+1F02x 🀠 🀡 🀢 🀣 🀤 🀥 🀦 🀧 🀨 🀩 🀪 🀫
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
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:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.1U+1F000..1F02B44L2/05-256N2975Proposal to add Mahjong symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2005-08-22
L2/06-088N3837"7.4.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, 2006-02-22
L2/06-306N3147Everson, Michael (2006-09-12), Proposal to encode Mahjong, Domino, and Draughts symbols in the UCS
N3162Proposal to add Mahjong symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2006-09-23
L2/07-171N3171Zhuang, Chen; Everson, Michael; Qin, Lu; Sekiguchi, Masuhiro; Shih-Shyeng, Tseng; Lin-Mei, Wei; West, Andrew (2006-09-27), Proposal to encode Mahjong, Domino, and Draughts symbols in the UCS
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]N4182Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ↑ See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. ↑ 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 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  3. ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2018-05-21.
  4. ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2018-05-22.
  5. ↑ "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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