What 🀩 means
It is the Winter tile in a Mahjong set.
The 2006 Unicode proposal calls Mahjong's origin unknown. One theory links it to Mádiào, a Chinese card game popular in the early Ming dynasty. Other accounts place Mahjong's creation around 1850 in Ningbo, where two brothers engraved card designs on ivory-and-bamboo tiles, or say Chinese army officers invented it during the Taiping Rebellion as a pastime.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsChinese International Rules chat
Reveal it, draw a replacement, and score the bonus; Winter pairs with North.
Japanese riichi rules chat
Standard riichi omits Season tiles.
Mahjong solitaire chat
Any Season tile can match another, even with different artwork.
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 1F029, 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 winter”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1f029, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🀩CSS
\1F029Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🀩
HTML hex
🀩
CSS content
content: "\1F029";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%80%A9
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.