Regional indicator symbol letter a Emoji

Flags

A blue, square-bordered character featuring the capital letter 'A'. It is designed as a building block for forming two-letter country codes used in international internet standards.

Usage Context

When two regional indicator symbols are placed next to each other, platforms automatically render them as a specific national flag. For instance, putting this symbol alongside regional indicator symbol letter u triggers the display of the United States flag. Aside from flag construction, it is occasionally used as a simple bullet point or to denote a top-tier grade.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, these symbols were developed to enable the mapping of ISO country codes into graphical flag icons without the need for hundreds of separate flag emojis. They rely on the underlying system's ability to interpret paired sequences as a single graphical entity.

Details

Glyph

🇦

Unicode

U+1F1E6

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1e6:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDE6;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Flags

Subcategory country-flag

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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