Mahjong Red Dragon

The 🀄 Mahjong Red Dragon emoji belongs to the games, filed by Unicode under Activities. In practice it comes up around dragon, game, mahjong and red.

You can drop 🀄 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Activities and Sports. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F004.

• 🀄 works as a one-character reply when dragon is the subject.
• Fits messages about dragon, game, mahjong and red.
• Often seen near 🎴 Flower Playing Cards, ♟️ Chess Pawn and 🃏 Joker.

The red dragon is a tile from mahjong, a nineteenth-century Chinese game played with 144 tiles. This single tile entered Unicode in 2010, while the rest of the set only followed in 2018.

In China mahjong is a social occasion, often played for money and firmly tied to family gatherings and New Year. In Europe and North America, most people who say “mahjong” mean a completely different computer solitaire game that has little to do with the original.

• 🀄♦️ – Mahjong Red Dragon and Diamond Suit
• 🀄🎴 – Mahjong Red Dragon with Flower Playing Cards
• 🀄🪅 – Mahjong Red Dragon plus Piñata
• 🀄♠️ – Mahjong Red Dragon and Spade Suit
• 🀄♟️ – Mahjong Red Dragon with Chess Pawn
• 🀄♥️ – Mahjong Red Dragon plus Heart Suit
• 🀄♣️ – Mahjong Red Dragon and Club Suit
• 🀄🧩 – Mahjong Red Dragon with Puzzle Piece

Easy to mix up with 🎴 Flower Playing Cards, ♟️ Chess Pawn or 🃏 Joker. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.