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Mahjong Tiles (Unicode block)

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

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Mahjong Tiles
RangeU+1F000..U+1F02F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsMahjong tile symbols
Assigned44 code points
Unused4 reserved code points
Unicode Version History
5.1 (2008)44 (+44)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: 12

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 17.0
2.^Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Mahjong Tiles block contains one emoji: U+1F004.34

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 pointsa 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.
L2/11-438bc N4182 Edberg, 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

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.
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