What 🀫 means
It shows the tile's hidden side.
The face stays out of view, so the glyph gives no suit or value. Any extra implication has to come from the surrounding message.
Where did mahjong's tile designs come from?
Mahjong took shape in southern China in the mid-to-late 1800s.
Its numbered suits inherited designs from Chinese playing cards organized into money-related suits. American marketing helped make the game an international fad in the 1920s.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 🀫 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 🀫
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1F02B, then Alt+X to get 🀫.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “mahjong tile back”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f02b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🀫CSS
\1F02BCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🀫
HTML hex
🀫
CSS content
content: "\1F02B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%80%AB
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.