Regional indicator symbol letter l Emoji

Flags

A blue square featuring a bold, white capital letter 'L'. It is designed to function as a building block for forming two-letter country codes.

Usage Context

This emoji is rarely used on its own. When placed next to another regional indicator, such as 🇺, it forms the flag of a specific country, like Lebanon. Users mostly encounter it in technical settings or when constructing custom flag sequences.

History

These characters were added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 to allow systems to represent national flags using standard text strings rather than individual images for every single country. This provided a scalable way to handle global regional identification in messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🇱

Unicode

U+1F1F1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1f1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDF1;

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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