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 | 🀠 | 🀡 | 🀢 | 🀣 | 🀤 | 🀥 | 🀦 | 🀧 | 🀨 | 🀩 | 🀪 | 🀫 | ||||
| Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points | ||||||||||||||||
Emoji
The Mahjong Tiles block contains one emoji: U+1F004.12
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).3
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 points4 | 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. | |||
| L2/11-43856 | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) | |||
External links
References
"UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/ ↩
"UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt ↩
"UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium. https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt ↩
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 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10458-emoji-var.pdf ↩
Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents /wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Pictographs#History ↩