U+1F00B "🀋" Mahjong Tile Five of Characters Unicode Character

U+1F00B "🀋" Mahjong Tile Five of Characters is one of the 42 tiles in the "Characters" or "Wan" suit of the traditional Chinese Mahjong game, specifically representing the number five. Its appearance typically features the Chinese numeral for five, 五, rendered in red or green on a rectangular tile, and it is found in the Unicode Mahjong block (U+1F000 to U+1F02F). This tile, like others in the suit, is used alongside bamboo and dots suits to form winning hands, with the number five indicating a mid range tile in the sequence from one to nine. As part of the Unicode standard, it ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for games, text, and cultural contexts involving the popular tile based game.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F00B
Version Added	5.1
Name	Mahjong Tile Five 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 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDC0B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F00B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udc0b

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