Mahjong Tiles is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing characters depicting the standard set of tiles used in the game of
Mahjong.
Block
Emoji
The Mahjong Tiles block contains one
emoji
An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis; , ) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of modern emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from type ...
: 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).
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Mahjong Tiles block:
References
{{commons category, Unicode 1F000-1F02F Mahjong Tiles
External links
Test for Unicode support in Web browsers: Mahjong Tiles
Unicode blocks
Unicode blocks with characters for games