Mahjong Tiles (Unicode block)
Unicode character block
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Mahjong Tiles is a Unicode block containing characters depicting the standard set of tiles used in the game of Mahjong.
| 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 (2008) | 44 (+44) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
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]
| 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[a] | 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. | |||
| L2/11-438[b][c] | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) | |||
