Regional indicator symbol letter c Emoji

Flags

A bold, blocky letter 'C' encased in a blue or grey square container. This character acts as a building block for forming country codes in digital communications.

Usage Context

This emoji is rarely used on its own. Instead, it serves as the first half of a pair; when placed next to another regional indicator letter, it automatically transforms into the national flag of a specific country. For example, pairing this with 🇦 creates the flag of Canada, while pairing it with 🇭 produces the flag of Switzerland.

History

These characters were introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 to allow mobile operating systems to display flags using existing text-based protocols. By using a pair of regional indicators, systems can map specific two-letter ISO country codes to graphical flag icons without needing thousands of individual files.

Details

Glyph

🇨

Unicode

U+1F1E8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1e8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDE8;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Flags

Subcategory country-flag

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

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