Regional indicator symbol letter f Emoji

Flags

A blue square featuring a bold, white capital letter 'F'. This character is part of a special set of regional indicator symbols designed to be rendered as flags when paired together.

Usage Context

Beyond its use as a standard letter, this emoji is primarily used in internet culture as shorthand for 'Press F to pay respects,' a phrase originating from a prompt in the 2014 video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. It is often sent alone to acknowledge a failure, a funny misfortune, or a moment of mock mourning, similar to the vibe of 💀.

History

These regional indicator symbols were added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to allow systems to render national flags by combining two specific letter codes. While meant for technical mapping to country identifiers, users quickly adopted them for spelling out words or referencing specific internet memes.

Details

Glyph

🇫

Unicode

U+1F1EB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1eb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDEB;

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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