Regional indicator symbol letter s Emoji

Flags

A blue square featuring the capital letter 'S' in a bold, sans-serif font. This character is technically classified as a regional indicator symbol used by software to render national and regional flags.

Usage Context

You will rarely see this character by itself. When paired with another regional indicator symbol, such as 🇹, it triggers the device to display the corresponding national flag, in this case representing the flag of El Salvador. It is the backbone of how your phone renders country-specific icons in messages and social media profiles.

History

These characters were added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to provide a way for operating systems to support international flags without needing a unique code point for every possible flag on Earth. It relies on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code standard to map these letters into graphical images.

Details

Glyph

🇸

Unicode

U+1F1F8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f1f8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83C;&#xDDF8;

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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