Mahjong Wind Tiles Symbols

This block covers code points from u 1f000 to u 1f02f.

Mahjong wind tiles symbols. Mahjong is a tile based game widely played in china. 1928 mahjong tiles 3d models. Bamboo has a long life as well as principles of uprightness tenacity and hollow heart. Bamboo sticks dots wheels and cracks numbers.

Mahjong tile two of. These tiles each feature the character for compass directions. The plum blossom is seen as a symbol of winter and a harbinger of spring. The wall created in the game is actually meant to stand for the great wall of china itself.

Mahjong tile north wind x1f003. Each tile has a chinese character or symbol grouped into different categories. Mahjong tile west wind x1f002. The winds the first four tiles on the left are one of six tile sets in a mahjong game.

These depict the characters for compass directions such as east wind west wind south wind and north wind. Most of these form four series each of three suits. And have the script value zyyy. There is a total of 16 winds in each game.

For the game of mahjong one must learn to read the directional characters in chinese. Mahjong tile green dragon x1f005. Mahjong tile south wind x1f001. The game of mah jong is not only a game it can often be considered a work of art.

This is similar to playing cards suit having different variants with a set of 144 tiles. Or 番子 jyutping. Zìpái word tiles. Some mahjong parlours will have their own house tiles which may be red tiles for even ranks even higher scoring green or gold tiles or colored wind tiles.

North 北 běi east 東 dōng south 南 nán and west 西 xī. All assigned characters in this block belong to the general category so other symbol. Many designers have taken a turn designing mah jong tiles. Mahjong tile red dragon x1f004.

This page lists the characters in the mahjong tiles block of the unicode standard version 13 0. Mahjong tile one of characters x1f007. In confucianism the plum blossom stands for the principles and values of virtue. The symbols and artwork on mah jong tiles are often exquisitely beautiful.

Wind is one of two honor suits. Click to find the best results for mahjong tiles models for your 3d printer. Every day new 3d models from all over the world. Mahjong tile white dragon x1f006.

A mahjong set contains a total of 144 tiles. Faan 1 zi 2 exponentials have neither rank nor suit but like suited tiles they are also formed into melds. Starting up with the honor tiles the very first in the list is the four wind tiles. The blossoms are so beloved because they are viewed as blooming most vibrantly amidst the winter snow.