Mahjong Tiles (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode character block
Short description: Unicode character block
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
5.144 (+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

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[lower-alpha 1] 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), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 
L2/06-088 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, 2006-02-22 
N3103 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27 
N3162 Proposal to add Mahjong symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2006-09-23 
N3153 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), 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), 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[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] 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

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