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] (PDF)
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U+1F00x🀀🀁🀂🀃🀄🀅🀆🀇🀈🀉🀊🀋🀌🀍🀎🀏
U+1F01x🀐🀑🀒🀓🀔🀕🀖🀗🀘🀙🀚🀛🀜🀝🀞🀟
U+1F02x🀠🀡🀢🀣🀤🀥🀦🀧🀨🀩🀪🀫
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Mahjong Tiles block contains one emoji: U+1F004.

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).

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 pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.1U+1F000..1F02B44Proposal to add Mahjong symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2005-08-22
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.4.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15
"7.4.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, 2006-02-22
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.8.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
Everson, Michael (2006-09-12), Proposal to encode Mahjong, Domino, and Draughts symbols in the UCS
Proposal to add Mahjong symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2006-09-23
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
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
, )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.
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)

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