U+1F008 "🀈" Mahjong Tile Two of Characters Unicode Character

U+1F008 "🀈" Mahjong Tile Two of Characters is a visual representation of a specific tile from the Chinese tile-based game Mahjong, depicting a vertical red column with two round black dots at its top and center, signifying the suit of Characters (also known as Wan or Man) and the numeric value of two. This tile belongs to the suit of Characters, one of the three numbered suits in Mahjong, where each tile in the series (one through nine) corresponds to a number of dots or characters on the tile, with the design historically derived from Chinese numeric characters. In game play, the Two of Characters tile can be used to form melds, sets, or a winning hand according to the rules of Mahjong, which originated in China and is now enjoyed in many variations worldwide.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F008
Version Added	5.1
Name	Mahjong Tile Two of Characters
Block	Mahjong Tiles
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🀈
HTML Hex Encoding	🀈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x80 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDC08
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F008
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udc08

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other