Regional indicator symbol letter k Emoji

Flags

A blue-bordered square containing a bold, black uppercase letter 'K'. This character is part of a specific set of 26 symbols designed to render as country flags when paired together.

Usage Context

While it serves as a standalone letter, this glyph is most often used behind the scenes by mobile operating systems. When you combine this with another regional indicator, like 🇷, it triggers your device to display a specific national flag. Users rarely interact with these individually, but they are the literal foundation for how every country flag emoji works on your phone.

History

These regional indicators were added to Unicode 6.0 in 2010. They were specifically developed to avoid the need for adding hundreds of individual flag icons, providing a clever, scalable system to represent any nation by simply chaining two specific letter codes together.

Details

Glyph

🇰

Unicode

U+1F1F0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1f0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDF0;

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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