U+1F00E "🀎" Mahjong Tile Eight of Characters Unicode Character

U+1F00E "🀎" Mahjong Tile Eight of Characters is a specific graphic symbol within the Mahjong tiles block, representing one of the 36 numbered suit tiles in the traditional Chinese game. This tile belongs to the Characters (or Wan) suit, which features the numeral eight stylized in Chinese script on a white tile with a colored border. In gameplay, the Eight of Characters is a middle rank tile that forms part of various scoring combinations, such as a pung or chow, depending on the game's rules. Its digital inclusion in Unicode ensures that it can be consistently displayed and exchanged across different platforms and applications for games, cultural references, or historical preservation of this classic pastime.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F00E
Version Added	5.1
Name	Mahjong Tile Eight 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 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83C 0xDC0E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F00E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83c\udc0e

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